Ill be brief, just to kick us then let these guys unpack some of the details. What we want to address today is is oblem in the bell that easily fixable and that the overwhelming majority of the American People and the majority of the congress, i think, would want to be on the side of fixing. To people get help that need help. There are lots of hurting people in this country. Healthrelated right now and economic now and coming, hich also produces a second wave of Public Health crises for people. We want to get help to people who need help. Number of us are very fiscally conservative and normally spend talking total price tags. None of what were here to talk bout today is about a price tag. Senator sasse one of the fundamental purposes of this ill is to maintain the employeeemployer relationship through the trough of the ecession thats arriving right now. We want to maintain the relationship. Yer we want to celebrate workers and dignity of work and the bill to affirm that employeeemployer relationship pulling of people allnighters for four, five nights in a row now have been billing components of this which try to strengthen and maintain that employeeemployer relationship. Theres a massive drafting problem where when you look at the interaction between components different of the bills it looks like parts of other parts of this bill incentivize the severing of the employeeemployer relationship. Aim to stop at we and thats why were working with the finance Committee Staff ight now to draft an amendment that would solve this problem so you wouldnt incentivize the evering of the employeeemployer relationship Unemployment Insurance provisions in this actually lead to different outcomes that would happen if to maintaind to try their current employer. Doesnt the importance of work, the dignity of work, worker, employer, Small Business relationship. It also matters because we anything ant to do that accelerate shortages in critical supply chain and pathways inside the Critical Industries in america. Y Critical Industries in merica i mean health aides and grocers and people doing local delivery, garbage men. Lots of Important Industries in have median wages which are lower than what would happen benefits unemployment portion of this bill and so we dont want to actually of that e the severing employeeemployer relationship. Each guys are going to make comments and well make comments. Tim scott. Our goal is to help this bill get to the finish line as fast as possible. I am in support of the legislation. This drafting error made me moment. R a the key to understanding the drafting error is kind of simple. Cannot we cannot encourage people to make more money in do in yment than they employment. As an example. N South Carolina, the average unemployment the maximum unemployment is about 326 a week. The ay we understand egislation, the 326 on top of that would be 600 a week. Said differently, someone can make about 926 a week. That the legislation is written, the person who makes that would make that anyways. Able a person who makes 20 an hour times could get a week, about half of their income up to thenfor South Carolina and on top of that, they would get an additional 600. Doesnt the legislation doesnt envision the ability to hour omeone making 10 an or 15 an hour or 20 an hour of ing a maximum of 100 their income. This legislation would not stop at 100 of your income. Allow youlation would in unemployment to make more than you do in employment. Drafting at that is a error and we are simply providing an amendment to fix not make at you could more in unemployment than you do working. Re lindsey. Well know am about an hour as to whether or not this is a drafting error. Theyre right. But im concerned. Me tell you why. Under this proposal that they last night, on unemployment you would be making south an hour in carolina. There are a lot of jobs in south not pay 24. 07. Ive been one of the biggest of helping the Unemployment Insurance system as package. Relief the maximum benefit is as said, was 326. My goal was to add some federal dollars to the pot to get you you were making with a cap of 600, which is an of about 49,000. More not to s you work than if you were working. Are going to e turn down a 24 an hour deal not work. That work for 15. Is that or employers you then put out a business because the containment policies will continue aggressively for a while. What do you tell an employee if or bar in estaurant myrtle beach . Are you going to say, let me put ou on the payroll, thats your salary of 15 an hour, or are you going to say, go to the office and sign up for unemployment, get as much as you can. Money, you ant the need the money, and there will be a job waiting on you. A nurse aide making 15 or 16, you are on the front here. A lot of doctors offices are ba to have to roll back because elected surgeries are not a source of income for a doctors. So youre going to have all hese welltrained nurses that will make 24 an hour on unemployment. You are aliterally incentivizing taking people out of the work fork you are literally incentivizing taking people out workforce. If this is not a drafting error, the worst idea ive ive n a long time and seen a lot given the fact were in washington. O my democratic colleagues, i have been one of your strongest supporters for upping insurance, but i never in my wildest dream would d that we incentivize people to stop by ing to take unemployment increasing unemployment wages to 24 an hour. To destroy whats left of the economy . Pass it the way its written. To help people, give them their wages, but dont pay more not to work. Somebody started some businesses and somebody became at e businesses, also come it from the standpoint of individuals just finishing his governor about 15 months ago. My time as governor we focused ow could we get people off unemployment by getting them a job and we were able to do that. Eight years 1. 7 million jobs. Own to 61,000 people in on unemployment as i left office. Senator scott i was very workers that dont have a job. On top of people getting tips. Existing sing our unemployment system because its the fastest way to make sure we have a system and the money gets there. So ive been very supportive. Now we have a virus that we know cant work for a variety of reasons. Some because government sets it up. Because the economy is hurt so we got to help them. But the moment we can go back to we cannot create an incentive for people to say, i to work d to come back because i can do better someplace else. These employers are going to rebuild e workers to this economy. So we cannot be paying people unemployment than what they would get paid within their job. O im very supportive of this amendment. Its the right thing to do. I know we still have a lot of this get get the coronavirus behind us. We can open this economy we got to get people back to work so we can rebuild economy. Its like what tim said, they want to work. Wrong reate the incentive. We will hurt a lot of businesses nd a lot of families in this country. Negotiated with the white house. If this is not changed, will you orce the senate to go through all the properly steps to get to a final vote . Scott i am hopeful we will get this done quickly. I know the American People need resources thats in this bill. Let rereinforce this drafting important. Pe, is so i know some disagree with that. I like to do math. I do it fast. Me be simple. Someone making 15 an hour in outh carolina working 40 hours a week makes 600. F youre unemployed, you can get up to 326. You get half your income. Now becomes 300 in unemployment. To federal government comes put 600 on top of the 300. Instead of making 600 when you working youre making 900. How long do you stay in if you are making 50 more . The answer, 16 weeks. Was aneve i hope this actual error. This bill needs to be done without any question. Done here can get it today and i believe that well have an amendment, i pray, in couple hours. Senator graham, why do you think its not a drafting error . I m r graham well, hoping it is but well know in a little bit because the democrats right, yeah, youre lets fix that, and we should know about the time you write out. Stories and this gets me. Eres the point for i think weve done absolutely he worst thing we could do to stabilize the economy. Tove incentivized people not go back to work. Just cant imagine the effect in South Carolina and other places when you realize youre an hour on unemployment. So every employer in the state compete against a 24 an i guess. Mum wage now, isnt the smart thing to make whole up to about 50,000 aggressively contain the disease and get the economy open as soon as we can . Thing. The smart reporter senator graham, scott. Fix, either the drafting fix or an amendment to cap this then . of your income senator sasse the American People dont think you should than not oney to work to work and the American People and the stated purposes of this ill are to maintain the employeremployee relationship. America is going to come out of this. Were going to beat the virus to the economys going recover but we want American Families to be thriving again in downnine months, not years the road. And if we do something now that says the new baseline american is the government should actually say this proposition is true, we want money than t more not work than to work, the American People dont want that to happen. People would f like to have the fight what happened on this night versus hat night in the negotiating room. I think the charitable desire some of us have is to say, listen, this is an unplus dented time. The pace of writing this bill is clunky and stinky and messy in lots of ways. Charitable with the assumption that interaction of the different components of this bill was not well thought out thesis we use the should debate is, do you want to affirm unemployment response and results in salary and wages as greater than work . No. He American People dont want that. Reporter with the cap, i have a followup question. I am not e this trying to be a smart ass. Do you know how bad the optics have the wealthiest person up a Senate Holding this couple hundred bucks for some of he poorest people in the country . I want our Small Businesses, including our hospitals, nursing homes, everybody can make sure people to work senator scott and i also want to make sure, in the bill that you have an unemployment system in the states that work and we need to continue to work that and we supplement to it. Senator sasse everybody wishes they had rick scotts bank account. I get it. You go to any coffee shop in nebraska, you go to omaha, we go to 93 counties, you go to small towns and you go in the coffee shop and say, do as a people think what america wants to do is say, lets have a federal government that says we m want to incentivize severing peoples work relationships . Hell, no. In work. Lieve work has dignity. Work gives us purpose. Work is how we provide for our families. We love our neighbors. We want to affirm the worker in america. Working people in america dont comes in ernment that and says, actually, you know, people in d. C. Know better than severd would be better to your employment relationship. Nobody wants that. Drafting when did this error when was it discovered . Senator graham as i know i know is were on the phone getting briefed. And i ll on the phone ask, how much is the unemployment benefit from the federal government . 600. Ok. Id, do you huh . Ok. Question, that 600. Ok. What happens with that 600 . A smallure working for business and youre cook and is,ng 40,000, the question are you eligible for unemployment . Because if you are, youre going make more money and hey cant keep you on the payroll. So heres its not about rick or me or anybody else. We have to create a sustainable system. Pandemic is coming back in the fall. We need to create pandemic on unemployment that are sustainable. O if you believe that, why not fix it now . Why not say, in perpetuity, dealing with pandemics today and tomorrow, you can get up to your salary, no more . This wont end in four months. Its probably going to go on a lot longer. Reporter followup to the question. You would object to fast tracking this bill if this change is not made . Would require the full cloture . An amendment vote acceptable . If they dont allow you an amendment . Senator scott its acceptable. Simultaneous] sasse when you see the gamecocks it feels like we over the last this bill is s way too big than any legislation desire but america is in an urgent moment. There is a lot of urgent stuff hat should move urgently and yet the interaction of different components has led to an outcome than a lot of people stated than he task forces stated 36 hours ago. Were trying to deal with the Public Health issues. E want to deal with the steve daines manhattan project. There are critical Public Health issues in this. Trying to c level of provide relief for the american eople going into the coronavirus recession, the tated purpose is to maintain employeremployee relationships and when republican senators were on a Conference Call for 92 minutes this morning, a lot of the first time an assurance we were given in other wasnt so and that assurance was that you wouldnt fail to cap this such accidentally incentivizing unemployment and the severing of that relationship. Yer thats what we dont want happen. Thanks a lot. [talking simultaneous] senator graham let me talk about myself. The most responsible thing to do . Fix it now because the problems while. O be around for a its more responsible to make Unemployment Insurance setting you dont get more than you actually make because that does incentivize eople to leave their employment. Id like to vote on that. Couldk hopefully the body come together. Whats really irresponsible is that ate an aid package disincentivize people from staying in the workforce in areas that we need. Compete against 24 an hour. So all im saying and ive champion of Unemployment Insurance is lets just make sure we make whole. Lets dont increase their salary. Because we cant afford to do to severyou dont want that employeremployee relationship. I think the most responsible now. 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