Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015
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Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, the Senator from Washington knows how much I admire and respect her. We have had great opportunity to work together in a very productive way, but what we have just seen from our friends across the aisle is not designed to actually get anything done. It was a show to try to claim political advantage and to try to create a narrative which simply isn't borne out by the facts.
The facts are that these costly proposals are unfunded mandates designed to make it hard for Americans to find jobs or become employers and create jobs for millions of people working for a step up the economic ladder. What Americans need, rather than show votes, are more job opportunities, more flexibility at work, and the freedom to negotiate a schedule that works for them.
Our friends across the aisle have been in charge and we have seen the results: an economy that grew last year at 2.2 percent--as a matter of fact, in at least one quarter it actually contracted. So we know what the fruit of these policies are because they have had their chances.
Their policies will destroy jobs, smother innovative startups in job creators like Uber, and perpetuate the Obama part-time economy, which has left a shocking 6.5 million Americans in part-time work as they search in vain for full-time work--and, I might add, a 30-year low of the labor participation rate--the percentage of people actually in the workforce that are employed, people that would otherwise want to work. We have seen what the results are.
The voters last November decided to try something different. They have given us a chance to show what we can do while we are in the majority, and I think the results are pretty good. We passed a budget for the first time since 2009. We passed a 6-year highway bill just recently, and we are still working with the House to try to figure out how to do that on a bicameral, bipartisan basis. We passed unanimously the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act to fight the scourge of human trafficking, which targets teenage girls predominantly for sex. We have passed the Defense authorization bill to make sure our men and women in uniform have the authority and what they need in order to keep us safe here and abroad.
We actually have had a very productive year so far in the 114th Congress under Republican leadership. What our Democratic colleagues want to do is take us to the past with slow economic growth and policies that simply don't work.
That is why I am happy to stand here today and object to these show requests that aren't actually designed to do anything but are designed for fundraising, press releases, and other publicity stunts that simply are not what is going to help the American people the most.
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