NLRB nominees breeze through Senate hearing

Kent Yoshiho Hirozawa and Nancy Jean Schiffer, President Obama’s new nominees to the National Labor Relations Board, were only picked a week ago. Tuesday they passed what is likely to be their only Senate hearing with little trouble.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is set to vote on their nominations tomorrow. The full Senate is likely to vote on their nominations and those of three others — current chairman Mark Pearce and Republicans Harry Johnson and Philip Miscimarra — next week. (The minority party gets to pick two of the NLRB’s five members.)