American democracy must preserve an employees right to a secret ballot when deciding union representation. We should not even be considering this bill. but if forced to. we should oppose it. I also want to point out on this front. in case you dont believe this matter is motivated by pure politics. that the majority leader scheduled a vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to the immigration bill immediately following the procedural vote on the secret ballot bill on Tuesday. So no matter what happens on the vote to proceed to the union payback bill. we will not actually be considering that legislationeven if we were to vote to go to it. How can this exercise be categorized as anything other than a waste of the Senates time? I wish I could report that this is the first time our colleagues on the other side of the aisle. who control the Senate calendar. have held votes that waste time and divert attention from issues that are much more important. As America struggles with record prices at the gas pump. and our broken immigration system is in desperate need of reform. the new leadership of this majority believes the Senate should spend more time and energy on a nonb~inding and purely political resolution on the Attorney General. I think that is unfortunate. Unfortunately. it is also indicative of the priorities we have seen.
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