ALG Urges U.S. Senate to Reject 10 Controversial Obama Nominees   

December 11th, 2009, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a letter urged members of the U.S. Senate to reject 10 controversial nominations made by Barack Obama.

According to Wilson’s letter, “All of these appointments have serious flaws and raise deep concerns about the competence and commitment of the individual to the fundamental principles on which our nation was founded.”

Enclosed with the letter, ALG included backgrounds on each of the appointments:
Clifford L. Stanley, Nominee for

Undersecretary of Defense for

Personnel and Readiness

M. Patricia Smith, Nominee for

Solicitor of Labor

Chai Feldblum, Nominee for

Commissioner on the Equal

Employment Opportunity

Commission

Jacqueline A. Berrien, Nominee

to be Chairman of the Equal

Employment Opportunity

Commission

James A. Wynn, Nominee for

Judge on the U.S. Court of

Appeals for the 4th Circuit
Christopher Schroeder, Nominee

for Assistant Attorney General for

the Office of Legal Policy

Craig Becker, Nominee to be

Member of the National Labor

Relations Board

Mark G. Pearce, Nominee to be

Member of the National Labor

Relations Board

Dawn Elizabeth Johnsen,

Nominee for Assistant Attorney

General for the

Office of Legal Counsel

Louis B. Butler, Nominee for

Judge on the U.S. District Court

for the Western District of

Wisconsin
Wilson told Senators in his letter to pull out all of the stops and to “use every tool” at their disposal to “prevent the confirmation of these individuals.”

Wilson continued, “Should they be included in any Consent Resolution, Americans for Limited Government requests you object.  Should they be brought to the floor of the Senate, we request you place a Hold on the nomination.  And should cloture motion be filed, we strongly request you vote to oppose cloture.  And, should all else fail, we urge you to side with the overwhelming majority of the American people by opposing these extremely bad appointments.”

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