Many agencies, such as the NLRB and the FEC, have multimember boards that require a quorum to operate.
Noel Canning comes out of the dysfunction surrounding appointments to the five-member NLRB.
Currently before the NLRB is a case concerning the right of workers at the luxury New York boutique Bergdorf Goodman to organize.
The only capitulation on the Democratic side is that the two NLRB members Obama wanted will be withdrawn in favor of two others.
In comments yesterday, McConnell sure made it sound as if the NLRB appointees were the most important to him.
