On the recordJuly 31, 2013
I'm troubled by the assertion that we don't treat our Federal employees right because we're asking them to do their job correctly and give their employers--we, the people, we, the taxpayers--the authority to make sure they're doing their job right when they call us by recording it, by giving us as taxpayers and as citizens the opportunity to avoid a he says-she says when a Federal agency, who has the power to fine us and get us through all kinds of trouble, calls us. We want to keep our evidence and we want to know. The gentleman on the other side of the aisle talks about not treating the employees the same as the private sector. There are very few large companies I don't call that the first thing I hear is: ``This call is going to be recorded for quality assurance purposes.'' Well, we're giving the employers of the Federal employees--the taxpayers--the power to record those calls for quality assurance purposes. Federal employees who are doing their job right, who are not intimidating taxpayers, have nothing to hide. We don't want to record their private conversations on their cell phones. We don't even want to get that metadata. We just want to record what the Federal employee is saying to us in the course and scope of his employ at our tax dollars' expense.
