Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) should withdraw subpoenas he issued for documents related to the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) legal complaint against airplane manufacturer Boeing, a trio of veteran Democratic lawmakers said Friday.

Over the objection of Democrats on his own House Oversight Committee, Issa subpoenaed the labor oversight panel after saying the NLRB did not provide enough documents for his investigation into the panel's case against Boeing. The NLRB argues that Boeing decided to build a plant in South Carolina to retaliate for labor strikes at its existing facilities in Washington state.

But in a letter to Issa released Friday, Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), George Miller (D-Calif.) and John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) said the chairman should let the legal proceeding run its course.

"We are writing to request that you withdraw the unilateral subpoena you served on Sunday to the National Labor Relations Board in light of a recent court ruling that effectively eliminates the purported basis for the committee's investigation," the Democrats wrote, referring to Seattle Administrative Law Judge Clifford Anderson's ruling in June against a motion to dismiss the NLRB case from Boeing.

The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee again took to the pages of a newspaper Friday to defend his role in the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, saying an editorial in the Jacksonville Times-Union in his home state that criticized the shutdown "told only part of the story."

In an op-ed published earlier this week, the Times-Union's editorial board said "Washington can't seem to do anything right, as illustrated by the partial shutdown involving the Federal Aviation Administration.

"A Republican-dominated House and a Democratic-dominated Senate played power games — and then left on vacation," the editorial continued. "Eventually, they figured out a solution, but not until damage had been done. The damage to the institution of Congress can't get much worse. At 82 percent disapproval, Congress has the highest negative rating in the history of the CBS-New York Times Poll. But the damage to the people they represent is serious."

Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), who chairs the House Transportation committee, disagreed with the paper's take. Mica wrote in Friday to say "Democratic Senate leaders chose to demagogue the issue and attempted to cast blame," placing the fault squarely on that party's shoulders.

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is right to issue subpoenas for documents related to the National Labor Relations Board’s legal complaint against airplane manufacturer Boeing, a pair of newspaper editorial boards said this week.

Issa has launched an investigation into the labor oversight panel’s case against Boeing. The NLRB argues that Boeing decided to build a plant in South Carolina to retaliate for labor strikes at its existing facilities in Washington state.

Issa has said the case appears politically motivated, an idea with which the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review agreed.

“By subpoenaing documents from the National Labor Relations Board’s lawsuit against Boeing Co., Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is appropriately pressuring the Democrat-dominated NLRB, which is intolerably pressuring businesses’ freedom to locate where they wish,” the paper opined Thursday.

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"During this time of economic uncertainty and record federal deficits, many question why America should invest aggressively in infrastructure," they wrote. "The answer is simple: Whether it involves highways, railways, ports, aviation or any other sector, infrastructure is an economic driver that is essential for the long-term creation of quality American jobs."

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