judicial body that oversees the enforcement and education of labor law disputes for private sector employees in this country. the nlrb has essentially -- was not functional for the first 14 months of the obama administration. it could not have a quorum. it had five people. it only had two. finally, they got it to three and when those appointments expired, it was back down to not being functional. the reason these three appointments happened was because the nlrb was not functioning. it would be as if the supreme court didn't have enough to rule on any cases. that was the case for 14 minutes. no one really knew about it and no one much cared except for the chamber of commerce, which was happy to see the nlrb not operational and enforcing labor law. the approximate cause of the way it has become political is the case that the nlrb brought a case against boeing when boeing