Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I reserve the right to change my mind based on what I hear from my colleague from Virginia. Mr. Chair, I do have great respect for my colleague from Virginia, and I appreciate the fact that this amendment recognizes the very serious problem with H.R. 7 by applying the expansive government data collection mandate only to business owners with 100 or more employees. However, the forced data collection scheme in the underlying bill, even with this amendment, is still extremely misguided. H.R. 7 requires business owners to, for the first time ever, submit reams of pay data to the EEOC, broken down by job category, race, sex, and ethnicity. Moreover, the collection must also include hiring, termination, and promotion data, which even the Obama administration's 2016 pay data collection scheme did not include. This data collection mandate raises several concerns. First, it puts at risk volumes of highly confidential pay data involving millions of individual workers. We all know the widespread data breaches the Federal Government has suffered. Second, the EEOC will not be able to manage or properly use this data. It has never been explained what exactly the EEOC will do with this data. Third, this mandate is overly burdensome. The data cells required from business owners when they file an employer information report, EEO-1, with the EEOC will expand from 180 cells to 3,660.…”