Mark Hemingway: House GOP should demand answers from Solis, Becker

Now that the Republicans will soon control the House, everyone expects President Obama to start actively exercising his executive authority. But Beltway observers have been so focused on legislative battles that few people have bothered to notice the executive branch has already launched a major regulatory assault in order pay back Democrats’ union allies.

Almost all of the Obama administration’s changes to labor laws involve reducing union transparency, denying workers a chance to hold union leaders accountable or otherwise have a say in how their workplace is run.