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I just have a question, leaving a voicemail, should that be a safe thing for a debt collector to do?

If we don't build our real-time payments here in the United States, rest assured, China will.

This is the first routine drone medical package delivery operation for compensation in our country.

As you know, my home State of North Carolina is one of the nine participants in the FAA's UAS integration pilot program.

Simply put, each of us here today believes workers should receive fair pay and fair treatment for their work.

With this legislation, the committee has an opportunity to stand united in taking a significant step to uphold workers' rights and improve the lives of workers across the country.

I am pleased that we discussed the Payroll Fraud Prevention Act, which would outlaw misclassification nationwide and hold accountable those employers that ignore workers' right.

The more I study this, the more this looks like a classic case where the government continues to overreach, and then overreach seems sometimes to do more damage than good.

It seems to me that there is always the assumption on the other side of the aisle that the private sector is made up of a bunch of crooks and that all they want to do is abuse people.

Today's hearing is an opportunity for this committee to come together, build upon state level efforts and take concrete bipartisan steps toward improving the lives of workers across the country.

Each of us in this room has a responsibility to ensure that workers are properly treated as employees when in fact they are employees and provided the protections that they are guaranteed under the law.

Okay. The absurdity of 'absolute accuracy.'

We are frustrated by the fact----

The question is, A, does that justify breaking the law in your case, a very clear directive.

You have the option of ignoring the law because of an array of alleged troubles in Puerto Rico.

Well, with due respect, I think you are posing a false choice, and I will explain why I think that.

If true, this is completely unacceptable, and must be corrected.

We have to write a budget for next year. You have to draw some conclusions right now about what this experience indicates and the direction you want to go.