Two influential Republican legislators have called out the Biden Administration’s labor advisor program for its resemblance to the controversial but never implemented blacklisting rule from the Obama era. The lawmakers—Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee; and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee—jointly wrote to the Department of Labor (DOL), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) challenging the administration’s directive to federal contracting agencies ordering them to designate a labor advisor to advise agency officials on labor matters when awarding federal contracts.
