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On the recordMay 4, 2011
it seems as if every day there is some new action by the Obama administration that throws a big wet blanket over job creation in America. Republicans haven't been hesitant to point this out and talk about too many taxes, too many regulations, too much debt, higher gasoline prices, higher health care costs, and the health care law. Yesterday, Senators Graham and DeMint and I introduced legislation to reaffirm section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act to permit States, if they so chose, to have a right-to-work law, creating a competitive environment in which we can create more jobs in this country. This is in reaction to the action by the National Labor Relations Board that would basically say the Boeing Company could not expand into a nonunion State. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record an editorial in the Wall Street Journal today called ``Congress vs. the NLRB.'' There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Congress vs. the NLRB President Obama's National Labor Relations Board has spent the year thumbing its nose at Congress by reinterpreting longstanding labor law on behalf of union friends. Congress is finally fighting back. Tennessee GOP Senator Lamar Alexander along with South Carolina Senators Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint are this week introducing legislation to rein in the labor board's latest assault on business.…
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Heidi Alexander
Labour Party
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May 4, 2011

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