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“the amendment I filed, Blumenthal No. 4255, will not be made pending, but I want to emphasize the importance of the amendment and hope I can work with my colleagues on the substance of it because it is so profoundly important to fairness in the workplace and the protection of American workers. My friend and colleague, the Senator from Washington, Patty Murray, has spoken on this issue within the last few minutes, and I join her in supporting the critical Executive order issued by the President called the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. This effort requires companies doing business by the Federal Government to disclose whether they violated any of the 14 longstanding labor laws protecting American workers included in this Executive order. There is no requirement to disclose a mere allegation or claim of a violation of one of those laws, rather, the Executive order requires, very simply, disclosure of a determination by a court or administrative body of an actual violation. In effect, this Executive order would be gutted by the National Defense Authorization Act now on the floor of this Congress, and the amendment I was intending to offer is the very same amendment that was offered in the NDAA markup and supported by groups like Easter Seals and Paralyzed Veterans of America.…”