Over the last 25 years, there is no issue I have spent more time on during my political career than working with the employer community and the employee community, mostly represented by the labor movement. My goal throughout this last 25 years has been to maintain this balance that I think works for employers and their employees, and what we have here today is trying to upset that balance, taking away the secret ballot election from workers in order to make their choice whether they want to be represented or not.
John Boehner: “Over the last 25 years, there is no issue I have spent more time on during my political career than working with the…”
On the recordMarch 1, 2007
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Discussing the implications of a bill affecting labor relations and secret ballot elections.
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