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Kicking Card Check While It's Down

Jillian Bandes | July 30, 2009 3:40 PM

We already know that a lot of the meat was pulled out of card check -- you know, the actual card check provision in the bill -- but it's really looking grim for the rest of the legislation, which is currently sitting, inert, in the Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

"We've got the health care bill; we've got appropriations bills, and we're lacking two senators that we need right now....Nothing is happening on that right now," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, told the National Journal. Unions have been putting their resources into health care for the time being, leaving labor legislation in the dust. Thank goodness.

Kicking Card Check While It's Down

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