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On 8/29/2023 at 2:56 PM, Brady said:

Going to take a few days break I think, see y'all on the flipside

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Madam President,

The minimum wage increase the Senator from Texas has offered will increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for every American who's working for a corporation making more than $1 billion per year, from Walmart to McDonald's and all the billion dollar multinational corporations in between. What it won't do is run small businesses into the ground and force either layoffs or outright business closures. The whole point of the Blue Collar Bonus, which received broad bipartisan support in the last Congress, is to provide a higher wage for Americans without the risk of layoffs, business closures, and recession. Combined with this $15 minimum wage for employees of billion dollar corporations, this is a common sense way to make sure multinational corporations making more than enough profit have skin in the game — as the Democrats have demanded — while ensuring we don't break the backs of the nation's small businesses.

At this point it's fair to ask our colleagues across the aisle if they're really interested in increasing the minimum wage or if they just want to look anti-business for the radical socialist left, like the Congresswoman recently chosen by House Democrats to chair their conference. This bill, with these amendments included, will dramatically increase wages for all low income workers and ensure billion dollar corporations have skin in the game rather than subsidizing them. If Democrats are waiting for Republicans to agree to break the backs of our small businesses, drive them out of business, and put the workers they employ out of work in favor of the multinational corporations that fill Democrats' campaign coffers, they will be waiting a long time. We aren't going to do it. While Democrats stand up for far left activists who want socialism and pander to them, but actually stand in the way of forcing their billion dollar corporate backers to pay their workers a higher wage, Republicans will stand for raising the wages of the American working class and keeping American small businesses in business. We can do both, and Democrats need to stop grandstanding for the AOC fans watching C-SPAN and join us in doing both.

I second the amendments offered by the Senator from Texas and the Majority Whip.

I yield.

Madam President, I accept the amendments offered by the Senator from Texas and the Majority Whip as friendly, and I yield.

Madam President,

Given how often the Minority Leader brings up the bipartisan American EnergiX Act, you would think he might be aware of its extensive investments in carbon capture technology, which included new standards for the use of carbon capture as well. Perhaps he should read the bill he references so often.

I yield.

Madam President,

Might I inquire as to whether any of our colleagues know where to find the world's tiniest violin? I'd like to gift it to the Senator from Massachusetts, provided that doesn't violate any ethics rules of which I'm unaware.

I yield.

Madam President, I second and yield.

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Madam President,

Since our colleagues across the aisle seem to have forgotten, I will remind them that Enrique Escarra was employed here in the United States illegally. Had E-Verify been in place to prevent that, he wouldn't have had the resources to remain here illegally and commit the violent crimes he committed. He isn't alone in that regard.

As Democrats take to the Senate floor and pretend to be standing up for illegal immigrants, we need to be clear — illegal employment isn't good for them either. The reason businesses hire illegal labor is so they can bypass wage requirements, labor laws, and public safety regulations. They want to be able to hire people who they can pay below the minimum wage, who they can mistreat, and whose backgrounds they don't need to delve into to see if they're actually reputable, law-abiding people. At the same time, illegal hiring has negative impacts on American workers as well. Now, let's be clear, none of that matters as much as the central issue, that illegal hiring is dangerous for American families and neighborhoods. But it does go to show illegal hiring only serves unscrupulous businesses, not illegal immigrants and certainly not Americans.

It's not surprising Democrats are out here standing up for the big business interests that have shown them so much favor in recent years, but disguising it in identity politics and hollow platitudes claiming to protect the marginalized and vulnerable. That's their entire playbook. It's sad they think the American people haven't caught on by now.

I yield.

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