NLRB Chair Fails Before Final Confirmation Vote in Senate (2)

National Labor Relations Board Chair Lauren McFerran will likely not be heading to a final confirmation tally after the Senate shot down a vote to close debate on her renomination in the waning days of the lame duck session.

The chamber voted 49-50 in a procedural cloture vote to reject her nomination. Biden tapped McFerran for a second term heading the NLRB in May, and she cleared the Senate labor committee in August. Senate Democrats also withdrew the cloture motion for Republican Joshua Ditelberg.

Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) voted against McFerran, with Sinema casting a ...