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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: ChicosBailBonds on July 19, 2007, 01:55:13 PM

Title: Democrats cutting back on government size
Post by: ChicosBailBonds on July 19, 2007, 01:55:13 PM

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110010343

The new Democratic Congress has finally found a government agency whose budget It wants to cut: an obscure Labor Department office that monitors the compliance of unions with federal law.

In the past six years, the Office of Labor Management Standards, or OLMS, has helped secure the convictions of 775 corrupt union officials and court-ordered restitution to union members of over $70 million in dues. The House is set to vote Thursday on a proposal to chop 20% from the OLMS budget. Every other Labor Department enforcement agency is due for a budget increase, and overall the Congress has added $935 million to the Bush administration's budget request for Labor. The only office the Democrats want to cut back is the one engaged in union oversight.  

Title: Re: Democrats cutting back on government size
Post by: ZiggysFryBoy on July 19, 2007, 03:41:10 PM

you'd think the Dems would be in favor of this office cracking down on union leaders stealing there money, after all, it's the union man that votes democratic.  Unless they're worried that the unions are going to have less "play" money to give them for their campaigns......