Senate Confirms Five NLRB Nominees; First Fully Confirmed Board in 10 Years

July 30, 2013, 4:00 AM UTC

The Senate voted July 30 to confirm a slate of three Democratic and two Republican nominees to the National Labor Relations Board, giving the agency a full complement of confirmed members for the first time in a decade.

Senators voted to confirm new board members Kent Hirozawa (D), Nancy Schiffer (D), Philip Miscimarra (R), and Harry Johnson (R), as well as current board Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce (D), who will continue in that position.

Hirozawa and Schiffer both were confirmed on nearly party-line votes of 54-44, with only one Republican—Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)—in both cases crossing party lines to approve ...

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