He wants to be sworn in stat -- not "prepare" until the 11th as he'd originally wanted. There's a confirmation vote -- tomorrow -- he may want to vote "no" on, "no" being the lockstep vote of the GOP these days. Senator-elect Brown is beginning to look like anything but his own man.
One vote where Brown would make a difference is the Senate's consideration of union lawyer Craig Becker to become a member of the National Labor Relations Board.
Republicans -- led by Arizona Sen. John McCain, who endorsed Brown's candidacy -- have held up Becker's confirmation for months. They say Becker might use the post to make labor laws more union-friendly without congressional approval.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups have actively opposed Becker, suggesting his views are ''out of the mainstream.''
But he was renominated earlier this year, and a Senate committee was expected to send his nomination to the full Senate on Thursday. Democrats would need 60 votes to bypass a GOP hold and push the nomination through.Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, said Tuesday that Democrats would move a vote on Becker ''as expeditiously as possible on the floor.''
