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09_February 10, 2010
The Regulator from SEIU - The Senate revbels against Big Labor
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Before Snowpocalypse II hit Washington yesterday, the Senate squeezed in a brush back to President Obama and his friends at Big Labor. As the old saw goes, elections have consequences, and the one on the mind of legislators took place in Massachusetts last month.

Democrats Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln joined with Republicans to block cloture on a closely watched vote on the appointment of a lawyer for Andy Stern's Service Employees International Union to a seat on the National Labor Relations Board. As glaring was that only 52 Democratic Senators dared record their support for Craig Becker's nomination.