John Shaw: “as we come to the closure of the debate on this, I would like to not only compliment the chairman of the Committee on…”

“as we come to the closure of the debate on this, I would like to not only compliment the chairman of the Committee on the Budget, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich], but also the gentleman from South Carolina who, together with the Republicans and his Democrats, sought out a lot of middle ground in working this process through to bring the House bill to the floor. The provisions complained of in the motion to instruct are harmless. It accepts the House provision in the first and the last provision within the motion to instruct. The second provision is written in such a way, I think, to mislead people that the House provision was blind to the protections that workers would have. I would encourage all Members on this side of the aisle to go ahead and support the motion. It does no harm to the House position. I think, as a matter of fact, my interpretation of it is in very strong support of the House position, and that is where the conferees should start out and hopefully end up on a lot of these provisions. I do want to make it very clear, however, to Members listening to the debate that what we are talking about when we talk about some of these things that might be missing such as unemployment compensation, FICA, some of these other provisions that are the only benefits that these people are not receiving, when they go into the private sector, they will receive full benefits.”