Republican Burr Assails Nominees for NLRB, DOL Top Attorneys (1)

The ranking Republican on the Senate labor panel clashed with the Biden administration’s nominees for the top legal posts at the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Labor Department, accusing the duo of being politically motivated ideologues.

The fireworks came at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee’s confirmation hearing Thursday for Jennifer Abruzzo, President Joe Biden‘s nominee for NLRB general counsel, and Seema Nanda, his choice for solicitor of labor.

Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) repeatedly criticized what he described as the pair’s partisan motives, grilling Abruzzo in relation to Biden’s first-day firing of the Trump-appointed ...