GOP blows chance to defund radical NLRB

Rep. John Kline (R-MN)

President Obama's party lost its majority in the House of Representatives last fall and the Democrats hold fewer seats in the Senate. But the president is still pushing his radical agenda using the regulatory route. For instance, he is utilizing the EPA to force de facto energy taxes onto every American.

The 111th Congress was unable to pass union card check legislation--and there is no chance that the anti-secret ballot method for workers' to decide whether to join a union will be enacted in the foreseeable future. But that's where the regulatory route comes in again. Last spring, using a recess appointment, Obama named card check zealot Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. That panel last year approved a UAW card check deal at the Dana Corporation.

Some Republicans, notably Rep. John Kline (R-MN), have been trying to defund the NLRB. And last week, during budget negotiations, an opportunity do de-fang the NLRB fell onto the lap of the GOP--and they blew it. The board will continue along on its destructive path.

And would you believe that the NLRB is overfunded? It ran a budget surplus last year.

Fiscal year 2012 begins in six months. It's time to cut.

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