the nlrb is attempting a sneak attack through the rule-making process. this is an ambush on the national labor relations act to set up ambush elections. the national labor relations board is an agency that has historically issued very few regulations. most of the questions that come up under the law are handled through the decisions of the board. board decisions often do change the enforcement of the law significantly, but they are issued in response to an actual dispute and a question of law. in contrast, the ambush election is not a response to a real problem because the current election process for certifying whether employees want to form a union is not broken. the rule was not carefully negotiated by stakeholders. it was not made with careful debate. and there was no attempt to reach a consensus. in the late 1950's, congress worked to pass the landram-griffin act which protected the rights of both rank-and-file union members and their employees. this was a carefully constructed piece of legislation that came out of a special committee to study the i

instead the nlrb adopted a practice of a 25-day waiting period in almost every case. but this caution about the need for employees to have a chance to become familiar with the issues is just as true today. employees who are not aware of the organizing activity at their work site and even those who are need to have an opportunity to learn about the union they may join. they will want to research the union to ensure it has no signs of corruption. they'll want to know how other work sites have fared with this union and whether they can believe the promises the union organizers may be extending. employers should have every chance to understand the impact of unionization. for decades -- four decades ago senators recognized the opportunity to gather this and relevant information before casting their votes. unfortunately, the nlrb is choosing to ignore this caution and rank and file employees will suffer. this situation is exactly what the congressional review act was intended for when an agency goes too far and tries to impose rules or regulations that are unnecessary or ha

can't understand why we're spending the kind of money that we're spending on things like the epa and nlrb which are job killers in my district and in our state when we're not funding the important areas of defense. it's a very dangerous world as you well know only demonstrated every single day. i want to switch to the issue of social security disability. as you know the social security disability fund is going in insolvent next year. there's a proposal to reallocate payroll taxes to address the looming insolvency of the disability fund. what impact does that transfer have on the social security retirement trust fund? >> well, on a combined basis, the two trust funds would be -- their reserves would remain in place until 2033. so it is a very very small impact. in fact i would point out that this kind of reallocation has been done many many times under both parties and, frankly, has been done in both directions. it's a simple step that we can take, a small reallocation, that would ensure that folks who have paid into the disability trust fund earned those benefits, that those benefits woul

number one i think it's been very helpful that from nlrb perspective they have made it clear that the labor relations act under the law people are getting together and talking about conditions which include wages they cannot then be disciplined, terminated. so that's real protection in every workplace. ` education to get that out. i also believed in terms of just sex discrimination if someone asks about the issues and then gives -- is retaliated against for doing that i mean how is that not a form of sex discrimination? again a lot of women won't do that because they have been told the policy you can discuss and a policy that just says you can't discuss without making it clear what the outcome would be if you did doesn't have the same violation. but a lot of them don't. i do think it's important to be able to collect data. as you know what others may not under the equal pay act we do have the authority to do an investigation so unlike title vii ada where we have to have a charter come to us or i can issue and my colleagues can issue commissioner charges under equal pay we can do a dir

can't understand why we're spending the kind of money that we're spending on things like the epa and nlrb which are job killers in my district and in our state when we're not funding the important areas of defense. it's a very dangerous world, as you well know, only demonstrated every single day. i want to switch to the issue of social security disability. as you know, the social security disability fund is going insolvent next year. there's a proposal to reallocate payroll taxes to address the looming insolvency of the disability trust fund. what impact does that transfer have on the social security retirement trust fund? >> well, on a combined basis, the two trust funds would be -- their reserves would remain in place until 2033. so it is a very, very small impact. in fact i would point out that this kind of reallocation has been done many, many times under both parties and, frankly, has been done in both directions. it's a simple step that we can take, a small reallocation, that would ensure that folks who have paid into the disability trust fund earned those benefits, that those benef