{"id":11309,"date":"2011-09-16T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11309"},"modified":"2011-09-16T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:05:10","slug":"house-gop-votes-to-rein-in-nlrb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11309\/house-gop-votes-to-rein-in-nlrb\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Votes to Rein-in NLRB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a victory of sorts for those of us who want Congress to clip the wings of the regulatory state.\u00a0 In a near-perfect party-line vote the House of Representatives passed a measure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/sep\/15\/house-oks-curtailing-labor-board-nlrb-power\/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet\" target=\"_blank\">prohibiting the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from harassing businesses<\/a> like Boeing for moving to business friendly states.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the liberal majority on the NLRB sued Boeing for opening up a new factory in South Carolina \u2013 a right-to-work state \u2013 instead of expanding its existing manufacturing presence in Washington state, a union shop state.\u00a0 For the first time in its history, NLRB interpreted its congressionally delegated authority to include the power to punish a private business for relocating some of its operations to more profitable climes.<\/p>\n<p>Congress now has an opportunity to correct NLRB&#8217;s overly broad interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>NRLB\u2019s unprecedented decision merits a brush back response like the one the GOP-controlled House delivered yesterday.\u00a0 Though the measure is likely to die in the Democrat-controlled Senate, the Boeing-NLRB tussle should be some Republican presidential candidate\u2019s Exhibit A on the regulatory overreach of Obama\u2019s federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Unions can only grow if businesses grow first.\u00a0 It\u2019s time for the liberals at the NLRB and elsewhere to remember that simple truth.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Washington Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a victory of sorts for those of us who want Congress to clip the wings of the regulatory state.\u00a0 In a near-perfect party-line vote the House of Representatives passed a measure prohibiting the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from harassing businesses like Boeing for moving to business friendly states. Earlier this year, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,19,2154,1186,833,300,419],"class_list":["post-11309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-economy","tag-house-gop","tag-labor","tag-nlrb","tag-regulation","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11311,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309\/revisions\/11311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}