Christopher Shays: “If I could reclaim my time, Mr. Chairman, and I would be happy to ask for unanimous consent if we need more time, the…”

“If I could reclaim my time, Mr. Chairman, and I would be happy to ask for unanimous consent if we need more time, the point I would like to make, as someone who has sat on the Subcommittee on Employment and Housing of the Committee on Government Operations, which actually investigated the horrible event that took place that the gentlewoman is referring to with the processing plant, I am not aware that we passed new regulations, passed a new law, to deal with that issue. Mr. Chairman, we told OSHA to do its job better, and they did their job better, but it did not require us to pass new legislation to deal with it. Mr. Chairman, I just think in one sense, dealing with that issue, there would have been no effect of this legislation as it related to that incident. Mr. Chairman, I make another point to the gentlewoman. The fact is that this mandate bill is very clear that the very people that want to pass the bill to deal with a mandate, if it is not funded, the very people, the 50 percent who want to do that, can also be the very 50 percent who override the objection that it is not a funded mandate if in fact it is not a funded mandate.”