Today, the House passed H.R. 2062, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act, which uses older workers as pawns to advance a special interest and pro-trial lawyer agenda.
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) reacted to the vote, saying:
"H.R. 2062 is a destructive and misleading bill that does not protect older workers and rewards trial lawyers at the expense of sound public policy. It is Democrats promising deliverance but delivering disappointment.
"This sweeping one-size-fits-all ruse is not the answer unless Congress decides it wants to benefit trial lawyers at the expense of older American workers.
"All workers should be protected from workplace discrimination, and they already are under current law.
"H.R. 2062 is a distraction from the real problems plaguing our nation like the crisis at the border, over 9 million jobs begging for qualified workers, unaffordable college costs, and runaway economic inflation."
