Lynn C. Woolsey: “Imagine, we are a model for the country and we are--the things that California is not living up to these days. Shame…”

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. The total amount of appropriations made…

I just want to repeat what I said in my opening remarks. Nothing in the proposed rule would have applied to children working on their parents' family farm. The proposed rule maintains the parental exemption. But again, to remind everybody…

Again, Mr. Speaker, nothing in the proposed rule would have applied to children working on their parents' family farm, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I believe we have complete agreement with the first principle that you have referred to today, and that is that every able-bodied person should be working or preparing to work.