Late last week, the Obama Administration revealed troves of data about its nearly trillion dollar government spending spree, which it continues to describe as an economic stimulus package. Unfortunately for struggling American families and small businesses, the massive spending program simply hasn’t lived up to its “economic stimulus” moniker – leaving the American people to ask: “Where are the Jo... Read more »
How many ways are there to interfere with a union election? While the Employee Free Choice Act has been receiving most of the attention, few realize there are other proposals out there that also would affect workers’ rights at the ballot box. The latest attack occurred Monday at the National Mediation Board on a 75-year-old election rule that covers thousands of airline and railway workers. The Wa... Read more »
Reps. John Kline (R-MN) and John Mica (R-FL) today strongly criticized a proposal by the National Mediation Board to alter workplace organizing elections in the aviation and railway industries, questioning the limited review process for developing the new policy and an apparent attempt to limit public opposition. The Board’s split decision was announced via a proposal in the Federal Register yeste... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today as Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats prepare to rush through a $1.3 trillion government takeover of the health care system. Hastily crafted behind closed doors, the Democrats’ plan completely ignores a signature promise made by President Barack Obama: if you like your h... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today highlighting the dangerous consequences of Speaker Pelosi’s proposed government takeover of health care for American families: “Parents across the country should be focused on the health and well-being of their children, not trying to decipher Washington’s latest big gov... Read more »
The White House released some of its visitor logs last week and one name on them may not come as a surprise to anyone who has been following the mercifully mired Employee Free Choice Act. The No. 1 visitor is Andrew Stern, a big-time union chief and major EFCA stakeholder. The Wall Street Journal fills us in on Stern’s visits to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. here: “Andrew Stern, the president of the Serv... Read more »
It’s the bottom of the ninth inning for supporters of the Employee Free Choice Act – and they are getting desperate. With only a few weeks left in the legislative season, the AFL-CIO swung for the fences this week by co-sponsoring a full-page pro-EFCA ad in three Capitol Hill newspapers. It featured the ad’s other co-sponsor, another notable labor union. Was that union the Teamsters? The Internati... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today in response to the Obama Administration’s claims about job creation resulting from the so-called economic stimulus package enacted earlier this year: “The Administration’s rosy projections of jobs ‘saved or created’ by their near-trillion dollar government spending spree... Read more »
They tried mail-in ballots and even considered voting by Internet. But in the end, residents of a small Canadian city wanted to go back to the best method of voting: secret ballot. City elders in Clarington, Ontario, voted to restore the secret-ballot method for the 2010 local elections after hearing from a number of residents concerned about the “unsupervised” nature of both mail-in and online vo... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today in response to the release of yet another health care proposal from House Democrats: “America’s health care system needs reform. To accomplish that goal, the American people deserve a thoughtful, open, bipartisan debate about how best to bring down costs, expand access t... Read more »
