Rich that Romney's Coming Out Against Security and Protection of Working and Middle-Class Americans
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 1/5/2012
Q . . . can I get your reaction on the appointments to the National Labor Relations Board? Mitt Romney said today that the President has now packed it with “union stooges.” And he said that the board’s actions are simply un-American, and what the President did was political payback for the unions helping him with his campaign.
MR. CARNEY: Well, I would make two points. First of all, there were three nominees. One of them was a Republican who’s been languishing; hadn’t even gotten a committee vote for a year.
Secondly, I find it a little rich that on this and on the appointment of Richard Cordray to be the nation’s consumer watchdog, that the former governor of Massachusetts decided to take a position, in both cases, against the security and protection of working and middle-class Americans, because -- the President made those recess appointments to the NLRB because the NLRB did not have enough members anymore to function. And it’s an agency, an independent agency, that is designed to protect workers’ rights.
The President thinks that’s important. He thinks it’s important to protect workers’ rights. He thinks it’s important, in the case of the CFPB and Richard Cordray, to protect consumers from the abuses of payday lenders or mortgage -- non-bank mortgage brokers or student loan organizations or businesses. So that’s my comment on that.
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