In a 49-50 vote, the Senate voted down the confirmation of National Labor Relations Board Chair Lauren McFerran to serve another five year term. McFerran’s term ends later this month. All Republicans were joined by independent Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Joe Manchin (I-WV) in opposing McFerran in a vote that ensures the NLRB majority will swing to Republicans under the Trump Administration. Following the failure of the McFerran nomination, cloture on the nomination of Joshua Ditelberg to be a member of the NLRB was withdrawn.
