TPM alum Greg reported yesterday that Blue Dog Democrats had convinced House leaders to let the Senate go first on the Employee Free Choice Act, the labor movement’s central legislative priority this year.
The conservative Blue Dogs’ lack of love for the EFCA — dubbed the “card-check” bill by GOP critics — is no secret on Capitol Hill and even in Arkansas, where one columnist wrote yesterday that one prominent Blue Dog was reassuring local business leaders about slowing progress on the measure.
But have the Blue Dogs truly convinced House leaders to hold off on EFCA? I asked the House Education and Labor Committee, where Chairman George Miller (D-CA) has yet to even introduce this year’s version of the EFCA bill, and got a short, to-the-point answer: “No decision has been made on legislative strategy for the Employee Free Choice Act.”
