{"id":28245,"date":"2024-12-11T19:27:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/manchin-sinema-tank-schumer-lame-duck-effort-to-secure-dem-majority-on-top-labor-board\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T19:27:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:27:43","slug":"manchin-sinema-tank-schumer-lame-duck-effort-to-secure-dem-majority-on-top-labor-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/manchin-sinema-tank-schumer-lame-duck-effort-to-secure-dem-majority-on-top-labor-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin, Sinema tank Schumer lame-duck effort to secure Dem majority on top labor board"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a lame duck effort, President Biden and Senate Democrats tried to re-confirm National Labor Relations Board<\/a> Chair Lauren McFerran, a Democrat, to another five-year term, and thereby solidify a Democrat majority on the board until well into President-elect Donald Trump’s term.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.<\/a>, failed to handicap Trump’s impact on labor and unions for the first two years of his term with the vote, which took place on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Outgoing Sens. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., dealt their caucus blows, voting down the test vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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McFerran was not re-confirmed on the floor, despite the Democrats’ effort. Her nomination has been waiting to be considered since August when Democrats advanced her out of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). The Democrats notably have a razor-thin majority of only 51 and making sure all senators are there to vote can often be tricky.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senators voted 49 to 50 against ending debate and proceeding to a vote on her re-confirmation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A point of frustration for Republicans was the fact that HELP Chairman Bernie Sanders<\/a>, I-Vt., denied a request from his counterpart Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, R-La., to hold a public hearing on McFerran before advancing her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“This NLRB seat should be filled by President Trump and the new incoming Senate. Not a historically unpopular president and a Senate Democrat Majority that has lost its mandate to govern,” Cassidy said in a statement. “I am glad the Senate rejected Democrats\u2019 partisan attempt to deny President Trump the opportunity to choose his own nominees and enact a pro-America, pro-worker agenda with the mandate he has from the American people.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schumer filed cloture on her nomination on Monday, setting up a vote on Wednesday. In floor remarks, the New York Democrat did not acknowledge the lame-duck nature of the vote, telling his colleagues, “If you truly care about working families, if you care about fixing income inequality in America, then you should be in favor of advancing today\u2019s NLRB nominees. You can\u2019t say you are for working families, then go and vote no today, because the NLRB protects workers from mistreatment on the job, and from overreaching employers.”<\/p>\n

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In his own remarks, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said, “The NLRB member who\u2019s held primary responsibility for executing on the Biden-Big Labor agenda is its chair, Lauren McFerran. And she\u2019s up for confirmation to another term.”<\/p>\n

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He added, “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\u2019s term!”<\/p>\n

Since McFerran was not re-confirmed, the position will be Trump’s to fill during his term.<\/p>\n

Trump’s transition team did not immediately provide comment to Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk sounded the alarm bell on Schumer and Biden’s effort on Monday, writing on X, “EMERGENCY: Chuck Schumer is trying to ram through Dem activist Lauren McFerran for another term chairing the National Labor Relations Board\u2014a very big deal. If successful, we will have a Dem Chair of the NLRB for the first 2 YEARS of Trump’s Presidency. We need every GOP Senator to show up and block her!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a lame duck effort, President Biden and Senate Democrats tried to re-confirm National Labor Relations Board Chair Lauren McFerran, a Democrat, to another five-year term, and thereby solidify a Democrat majority on the board until well into President-elect Donald Trump’s term.\u00a0 However, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., failed to handicap Trump’s impact on … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}