Effort to Defund NLRB Fails 250-176
The U.S. House today defeated, 250-176, an amendment that would have defunded the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The proposed amendment to H.R. 1, the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011, would have set a funding level for the NLRB that was so draconian it would have defunded the agency completely through the end of the fiscal year in September.
The amendment, introduced by Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, is just one of the provisions in the Republican federal budget proposal that AFL-CIO Legislative Director Bill Samuel describes as an “all-out assault against middle-class Americans.”
Besides slashing the NLRB, the Republican-backed budget attacks the middle class and working families by taking away job safety protections, employment training opportunities and by slashing hundreds of thousands of family-supporting jobs.
Attacks on Medicare: Desperate Attempt to Gut Health Care Reform
This might come as a shock to the 44 million Americans who receive their health care coverage through Medicare, but according to two Republican House members, Medicare has “never done anything to make people more healthy,” and it has had the biggest “negative effect” on health care than anything else in the past 44 years.
Step back from Medicare’s 44th birthday cake (click here for more on the program’s four-decades-plus success) and let that gibberish from two of the charter members of the “let’s-kill-health care reform” caucus sink in. (While we’re doing that, a tip of the hat to Jason Rosenbaum at Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) for exposing this nonsense).
You can draw two conclusions. First, Reps. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Tom Price (R-Ga.) are just plain out of touch with reality.
