Senate Set to Consider NLRB General Counsel Nomination

While attention was diverted to the eleventh-hour efforts to craft and pass a deal avoiding a fiscal crisis and reopening the federal government, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Wednesday filed a motion to proceed with consideration of Richard Griffin, Jr., to be the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. Griffin was one of the three controversial recess appointees to the Board. In July, Griffin’s nomination to the Board was withdrawn – along with fellow recess appointee Sharon Block – as part of the Senate deal to confirm a full slate of Board candidates.