Mitch Landrieu: “until some other Members come to the floor, I want to add for the Record that, for Louisiana, there are 56 electrical…”

“until some other Members come to the floor, I want to add for the Record that, for Louisiana, there are 56 electrical contracting companies that participate in the National Electrical Workers Plan that will receive no relief in this bill. There are 18 Louisiana sheet metal contracting companies that have joined the Sheet Metal National Plan that will have their pensions in jeopardy, perhaps. But whether their plans are in good shape, they came here to ask for relief that would not have cost a penny, and they were turned away. There are 1,200 Louisiana workers who belong to the grocery store workers plan. They perhaps need to start worrying about when they will be able to retire because they were left out of this plan. Mr. President, 32,000 construction workers in Louisiana who have multiemployer pension plans have been excluded. Let me repeat, all of these workers--the thousands--the 18 Louisiana sheet metal contracting companies that employ thousands of people; the 32,000 construction workers; the 1,200 grocery store workers; and the 56 electrical contracting companies, which probably together employ, I am going to estimate, at least over 5,000 workers--all of those workers were included, along with these multinational corporations and large businesses. They were all included because they all need help. They all have legitimate requests that could be given by the Senate. When we debated this in the Senate, they were all included.…”