GOP senators block Obama’s public printer nominee over vacant NLRB slot

The NLRB battle heats up. From The Hill:

Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) prevented confirmation of President Obama's nominee for head of the Government Printing Office (GPO) on Wednesday over a delayed confirmation vote on a vacant Republican slot on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) tried to get the nomination of William J. Boarman, who is already acting as the heady of the GPO, to be confirmed by unanimous consent but the request was shot down by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) who objected on behalf of Hatch and Isakson.

The senators, who are both known as fierce advocates of so called "right-to-work," penned a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in the summer explaining their position.

“There is a 3-1 Democratic majority on the NLRB, which, in our view, is inappropriate, particularly given the number of controversial decision made by the Board in recent months,” they wrote on August 1. "Terence F. Flynn has been nominated to fill a vacant Republican slot on the NLRB, and, to date, very little progress has been made to move this nomination through the Senate."

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