McConnell Remarks On Biden Admin. Big Labor Agenda, NLRB
“I guess if you campaign on establishing ‘the most pro-union administration in American history’, then replacing duly appointed officials with Big Labor acolytes is certainly a Day One priority… The NLRB member who’s held primary responsibility for executing on the Biden-Big Labor agenda is its chair, Lauren McFerran. And she’s up for confirmation to another term.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the National Labor Relations Board:
“On January 20th, 2021, President Biden broke with longstanding precedent and fired the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board.
“I guess if you campaign on establishing ‘the most pro-union administration in American history’, then replacing duly appointed officials with Big Labor acolytes is certainly a Day One priority.
“As we know, this was an area where the President really did do his level-best to make good on his campaign promises.
“Setting aside his acting Secretary of Labor’s record presiding over perhaps the biggest state UI fraud in American history, President Biden’s NLRB has worked overtime to pollute employer-employee relations across the country with vague new standards, distort long-standing free speech principles, and wage all-out war on small-business franchisers.
“The NLRB member who’s held primary responsibility for executing on the Biden-Big Labor agenda is its chair, Lauren McFerran. And she’s up for confirmation to another term.
“If the board’s public actions over the last four years aren’t telling enough, I’d urge our colleagues to consider the gross mismanagement on Ms. McFerran’s watch that took an independent Inspector General report to uncover – serious violations of electoral procedures and cover-up attempts, to boot.
“This is to say nothing of the fact that her confirmation would give a lame-duck President control of an independent board well into his successor’s term!
“In this case, there are any number of reasons not to reward bad behavior. And whichever our colleagues choose, I hope they’ll join me in opposing the McFerran nomination tomorrow.”
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