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Gretchen, you can take this on first, is this a gift to the unions to make sure that the national relations board can act, they need a quorum, they each need five members. now theyve got them. what do you think. >> this one you can see on face value this was a payoff to the unions in the beginning of 2012 an election year. these appointments had just been introduced in december a few days before the senate went on recess. they didnt even have the time to block them if you want to say that or bri...

National labor relations board. everybody knows what happened in south carolina with boeing. is this. gretchen, you can take this on first, is this a gift to the unions to make sure that the national relations board can act, they need a quorum, they each need five members. now theyve got them. what do you think. >> this one you can see on face value this was a payoff to the unions in the beginning of 2012 an election year. these appointments had just been introduced in december a few days before...

Appoint the person then. all presidents do this. president obama almost never does this. as ian indicated nicely today, left to right, thats ronald reagan with more than 30. then poppy bush, then bill clinton, then george w. bush and then thats president obama on the right with less than ten per year. but today there were four. three to the national labor board and that board will have enough money to be able to have a quorum so it will be able to function. the president appointing his nominee, ...

All presidents do this. president obama almost never does this. as ian indicated nicely today, left to right, thats ronald reagan with more than 30. then poppy bush, then bill clinton, then george w. bush and then thats president obama on the right with less than ten per year. but today there were four. three to the national labor board and that board will have enough money to be able to have a quorum so it will be able to function. the president appointing his nominee, richard cordray, to lead ...

All 47 senate republicans warn mr. obama in a letter recess appointments to the nlrb would at the very least set a dangerous precedent and could needlessly provoke constitutional conflict between the senate andous. not since teddy roosevelt some historians say had there been a bigger conflict over appointment. after the past year battle over spending and debt and the coming battle of the presidential campaign, steven hess doubt mrs. obama wants to start 2012 with another fight. >> at a time wher...

Press secretary jay carney wont rule it out. >> its a constant problem. growing problem. where random senators put holds on nominations that are uncontroversial. that practice should stop. >> with two vacant sheet at -- seat at retiring appointment. they will lose the quorum with congress confirms. congress will investigate whether the dispute over boeing, south carolina, 787 plant is collusion with the nlrb and international machinist union. that which accused boeing trying to ship unionized jo...

All 47 senate republicans warn mr. obama in a letter recess appointments to the nlrb would at the very least set a dangerous precedent and could needlessly provoke constitutional conflict between the senate andous. not since teddy roosevelt some historians say had there been a bigger conflict over appointment. after the past year battle over spending and debt and the coming battle of the presidential campaign, steven hess doubt mrs. obama wants to start 2012 with another fight. >> at a time wher...

Press secretary jay carney wont rule it out. >> its a constant problem. growing problem. where random senators put holds on nominations that are uncontroversial. that practice should stop. >> with two vacant sheet at -- seat at retiring appointment. they will lose the quorum with congress confirms. congress will investigate whether the dispute over boeing, south carolina, 787 plant is collusion with the nlrb and international machinist union. that which accused boeing trying to ship unionized jo...

Be dissolved and reconcileed? in favor of the union. so if we want to play political gamesmanship we are better off with two members and the supreme court said they cannot ajudd indicate anything with less than a quorum but i think that be with better than giving it to the labor union on all 200 of the cases. >> congressman, thank you for sharing your outlook and your views, fair and balanced, now, there is a strong argument that the labor movement is lined to the nlrb and the president, therefo...

>> the dow falling every day this weekending 5 percent lower this week a net drop to make it the worst thanksgiving week for the dow since 1932. all that happening as the s&p downgrades belgium, citing growing worries of their economy. closer to home union members are furious ahead of a vote that would make it easier for unions to form and a board member is threaten to quit. the only conservative on the nlrb is worried the group is pushing a union friendly plan out the door but he holds the trum...