By WFI Staff
Given the current political climate in Washington, D.C., the last thing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid should be thinking about is putting additional limits on the filibuster. But, that’s just what he wants and he’s being pressed to essentially eliminate the filibuster altogether by Big Labor bosses.
It’s a desperate tactic with enormous consequences. After all, filibusters are one of many pillars in our democracy that offers lawmakers the expanded ability to do their job: oversight. Without filibusters – along with the need to aggressively scrutinize nominees – the executive branch can essentially do what it pleases absent Congressional approval. And we’re already witnessing way too many examples these days of the White House overreaching.
In the latest case, union bosses are pushing hard to have filibusters eliminated so they can push through controversial nominees like Thomas Perez for the Labor Department and unconstitutional “recess” appointees such as Richard Griffin and Sharon Block to the National Labor Relations Board. Union bosses are actually on Capitol Hill making demands. Reports Alexander Bolton in The Hill:
The option – which would involve Democrats changing Senate rules through a majority vote to prevent the GOP from using the 60-vote filibuster to block nominations – was raised during a private meeting Wednesday involving about 25 Democratic senators and a group of labor leaders. The labor officials demanded that Democrats break the logjam by stripping Republicans of the ability to filibuster.
WFI’s Fred Wszolek saw this coming. Concerned that “filibuster reform” was just another ruse for a labor bosses in Washington to get payback, Wszolek wrote in Roll Call:
Brace yourself: The real winner in the renewed conversation on so-called filibuster reform is union bosses. Unsurprisingly, should Big Labor’s allies in the United States Senate change the rules regarding how federal nominations are handled, it will be at the expense of America’s small businesses.
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