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Reid Card Check Announcement Key Victory for Freedom

We're thrilled at the news today from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that there won't be a vote this year on the outrageously misnamed ‘Employee Free Choice Act'. This bill would take the secret ballot away from workers in union organizing elections, and I personally saw how offensive that notion is to thousands of hard-working Americans at Save My Ballot Tour events we held throughout the Spring. Americans made clear that they won't give in to union intimidation and coercion without a fight, and at least for now, they won. 
 
We set out this year to stop the three big threats to economic freedom and prosperity.  With card check being pulled in the Senate, grassroots activists now have one key victory for economic freedom, and we will redouble our efforts to stop the other two major threats: a government takeover of health care and a cap-and-trade energy tax.