Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. This amendment has a rather nominal effect in not improving what is a very bad and deceptive bill. It is appealing to talk about rural areas. I am concerned about those rural areas, about the chicken pluckers, about the meatpackers, about the field workers, and the way they will be discriminated against under this bill. I will elaborate on that. While this is mainly a Republican caucus that follows the seditious pied piper who was our President, in this case, even under the Trump administration, when they considered this kind of proposal, the Treasury Department, the Labor Department, and the Health and Human Services Department came together and recognized the danger of discriminating against different classes of employees. Ultimately, unfortunately, the Trump administration did not provide the protection against discrimination, so that people who are working in rural areas under this bill may be discriminated against by their employer as a result of this legislation. It is the failure to have clear language in this bill to prevent such discrimination against rural workers, in favor of those who are in the office towers managing everything, that is at the heart of our opposition, as well as the refusal to provide protection and guarantees against people being denied as a result of their preexisting conditions.…”