Political Quotes

“The rule this amendment seeks to gut dates all the way back to 1966, and it has been in operation ever since. It is the Excelsior Underwear case. I have done hundreds and hundreds of house visits based on the information provided by these lists. Now, just because it has been in operation doesn't mean it has always worked well. For years, when I was organizing, I was given lists of names and incomplete information scribbled across scattered sheets of paper, and somehow this complied with the law. I am not going to admit how long ago this was, Mr. Chairman, but it was decades ago. The PRO Act simply codifies the rule regarding contact information to make it work better and modernizes it by ensuring that, among other things, contact information is provided in electronic, searchable format, this being the 21st century. Now, my distinguished colleague across the aisle might attempt to scare you with nightmares about union boogeymen coming to blow your house down; but, in reality, not one person has ever charged a union with abusing the voter information list since the NLRB updated its election procedures to modernize them in 2014, 6 years ago. Not one charge; it is completely made up. In fact, when the Trump NLRB, a body not exactly known for being on the side of workers, recently revamped their election procedure, they left this rule entirely intact, just as we are attempting to codify it in the PRO Act.…”