These bills will essentially undermine the clear and apparent purpose of our subcommittee, which is to provide a safe and amicable working environment for American workers.
Frederica Wilson
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Frederica Smith Wilson is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 24th congressional district since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been an advocate for education, healthcare, and social justice issues throughout her tenure in Congress. Wilson is known for her distinctive style, often wearing colorful hats, and her outspoken nature on various political matters.
Where--tell me where does the average worker who really doesn't want to go to court but wants to do his or her job without experiencing discrimination go to get justice?
I would like to highlight the majority's attempt to roll back a body of laws that have helped protect American workers from race, sex, age, and disability-based discrimination for over 50 years.
EEOC's job should be about getting results, not providing full employment for law firms looking for new ways to frustrate resolution of a disputed discrimination case.
These four bills appear to be a grab-bag for unscrupulous employers seeking to strip the EEOC of the tools they need to combat employment discrimination.
Mr. Chairman, these four bills today ignore the fact that race, gender, disability, and age discrimination persist, and we should not be hindering the agency's charge with combatting unlawful discrimination.
Today we will examine four bills that would impact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, in ways that I fear will compromise the enforcement of civil rights laws.
Thank you, Ranking Member Scott. Mr. Speaker, the Congressional Review Act is yet another attack on employees' rights to organize and to limit the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB should have the ability to safeguard those rights…
Hear ye, hear ye. Wake the town and tell the people that ISIS and Boko Haram are teaming up for terror. Boko Haram plus ISIS equals a ``marriage from hell,'' says CNN. Mr. Speaker, Boko Haram has courted ISIS for months, but this is the…
Everyone needs a job, and I think the mantra of this Congress should really be 'jobs, jobs, jobs.'





