Senate approves Obama’s picks to labor board

By Sean Lengell

Published July 30, 2013 4:00am ET

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Senate approves Obama’s picks to labor board — The sign for the National Labor Relations Board is seen on the building that houses their headquarters in downtown Washington, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. For such a tiny government agency, the NLRB has played an outsize role in the heated Senate filibuster fight over Obama administration nominations. But the board has long been at the center of a decades-long clash between labor unions looking to organize new members and business groups seeking to limit the role of unions in the workplace. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) | Jon Elswick

After a lengthy partisan standoff the Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Obama’s picks to the National Labor Relations Board, a move that filled the panel’s five seats with undisputed members for the first time in years.

The three Democratic-backed and two Republican-supported nominees to the board were approved as expected after the chamber’s leaders struck a deal earlier this month that lifted a GOP block on several Obama nominations.

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