Rape-Nuts http://www.thedailyshow.com/ Al Franken proposes getting rid of the old "it's OK if you get raped" clause in government contracts, but 30 Republicans object.
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Predictably, Sen. Jeff Sessions, ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, opposed Franken's bill. "Congress should not be involved in writing or rewriting private contracts," he argued. The bill was, he maintained, a "political amendment at bottom, representing a political attack on Halliburton." In fact, the amendment only goes so far as to require contractors doing business with the government to permit employees to sue civilly in the "most egregious violations," Franken emphasized in a statement. (For less egregious matters, contractors can still require employees to waive their right to sue and submit to arbitration.)
What is wrong with Republicans? It's o.k. if someone is raped, if it saves the company a dollar? Wonder if their "value voters" would feel the same way?
P.S. Where is the outrage from the Moral Majority on this one?
I vote we have the guys who voted against this change spend a month in a hard core prison and tell the prisoners there will be no repercussion for what happens to the congressmen over that month. No prison guards watching them, no protection.
Seems to me that Sessions and Co. are so adamant to show that they don't want Big Government that they won't support the government doing anything for the benefit of anyone regardless of the circumstances.
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Al Franken proposes getting rid of the old "it's OK if you get raped" clause in government contracts, but 30 Republicans object.
Predictably, Sen. Jeff Sessions, ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, opposed Franken's bill. "Congress should not be involved in writing or rewriting private contracts," he argued. The bill was, he maintained, a "political amendment at bottom, representing a political attack on Halliburton." In fact, the amendment only goes so far as to require contractors doing business with the government to permit employees to sue civilly in the "most egregious violations," Franken emphasized in a statement. (For less egregious matters, contractors can still require employees to waive their right to sue and submit to arbitration.)
OMG!
What is wrong with Republicans? It's o.k. if someone is raped, if it saves the company a dollar? Wonder if their "value voters" would feel the same way?
P.S. Where is the outrage from the Moral Majority on this one?
Seems to me that Sessions and Co. are so adamant to show that they don't want Big Government that they won't support the government doing anything for the benefit of anyone regardless of the circumstances.
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