Political Quotes

“I also ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record an article by Phil Kerpen in the Daily Caller entitled ``Will any Senate Democrat stand up to Obama's NLRB?'' There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the Daily Caller, Apr. 19, 2012] Will Any Senate Democrat Stand Up to Obama's NLRB? (By Phil Kerpen) With the spectacle of Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad being forced to back down on actually offering a budget, it's clearer than ever that Senate Democrats are pursuing a deliberate strategy of doing nothing, blocking House-passed bills and giving President Obama a free hand to use regulators and bureaucrats to push his agenda forward. The Senate has already failed to stand up to the EPA's back-door cap-and-trade energy taxes and the FCC's self-created legally dubious power to regulate the Internet. Next week we'll find out if there are any Senate Democrats willing to stand up to the NLRB bureaucrats who are imposing the failed card-check legislation in bite-size pieces via bureaucratic decree. The NLRB is giving the EPA a run for our money in the race to see which agency can cause the most damage to our free- market economy. Not only did the NLRB infamously sue Boeing for opening a new plant in a right-to-work state, it is now suing the state of Arizona to overturn the state's constitutional guarantee of secret ballot protections in union organizing elections.…”