[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5495]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

  Mr. BURR. Mr. President, I take the floor today to speak on two 
subjects and very briefly to address my colleague from Ohio. Mr. 
President, I wish to make an important point about why these collective 
bargaining provisions are, in fact, harmful to the United States of 
America and to the American people. It is a pretty simple point.
  Terrorists don't have collective bargaining agreements. I will say 
that again. Terrorists don't have collective bargaining agreements. 
Terrorists don't go on strike. Terrorists don't call their unions to 
negotiate before they attack. They are always plotting and, because of 
this, we must be always working vigilantly to protect our homeland.
  Today we are debating how quickly we are going to respond to threats 
from terrorists who are eager to strike us, and some in this body are 
suggesting that we should give the ability of the people who are on the 
front lines to collectively bargain. It is absurd. It is absolutely 
absurd. But I assure my colleagues, if this collective bargaining 
language stays in, we risk doing exactly that--accepting something 
absurd.
  (The remarks of Mr. Burr pertaining to the introduction of S. 765 are 
printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and 
Joint Resolutions.'')
  Mr. BURR. Mr. President, I yield the floor.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Florida.

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