Your budget request is impossible to be met under those circumstances; is that correct?
I hope I can get that commitment from you here this morning.
I was wondering if you have anything you can share with us this morning about where you see that headed.
I want to, again, just end by applauding the work that you did with Congress last year.
I want to thank you for the work that you did in the last Congress regarding the force structure change with the Air Nat...
What is worse, this legislation, as I said, has been considered several times before and failed to gain any traction.
We just celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Family Medical Leave Act.
I am sure Judge Roby, your father, would be proud to see you in that position.
I look forward to an opportunity to discuss legislation like the Healthy Families Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act that...
What is worse, this legislation... has nothing to do with promoting workplace flexibility.
This Tuesday was Equal Pay Day. I spent the afternoon at another institution... talking about a meaningful economic agen...
This bill just provides a way for employers to pay workers less in the name of workplace flexibility.
That amounts to an interest-free loan paid for by the workers' wages.
There is nothing that is illegal about having--as an employer giving that person that time off as a matter of law.
That directly undermines the 75-year-old Fair Labor Standards Act.
But to be clear, nothing in this bill requires that the worker has access to time off when she really needs it.
The people that they are drowning, of course, are the recipients of Social Security and Medicare, veterans, and the disa...
It would seem to me that in the Administration's application of its budget, it takes that into consideration.
