No. This isn't my amendment. I am just responding to the offering of this amendment, which I think is a very bad idea and which I am trying to develop. Actually there is a benefit to be gathered by some discussion of this matter, which was illustrated by the exchange we just had, because it was clear that at least there are some Members who, in order to avoid the costs, are prepared to let the Teamsters have an unsupervised election and let them out from under the consent decree. I think that would be very bad.
John Sarbanes: “No. This isn't my amendment. I am just responding to the offering of this amendment, which I think is a very bad idea…”
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Responding to an amendment regarding Teamsters elections and consent decrees.
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