Political Quotes

“I rise for a few minutes to compliment Chairman Alexander and Senator Johnson for their resolution of disapproval on the overtime rule. When I came into the Chamber, Lamar Alexander was making his speech, followed by Senator Johnson. I listened closely, because I got a phone call last week from Bryant Wright, the pastor at the Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, GA. They are one of the largest Baptist churches in my State. They provide daycare. They provide early childhood development. They provide sports activities. They provide vacation Bible school--a 24/7 program for underprivileged kids. The unintended consequence of what I am sure is a well-intended regulation is that a 24-hour-a-day camp counselor at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church for their vacation Bible school will be paid regular pay for 8 hours and then have to be paid time and a half for the other 16 hours of the day they are with the child under the application of the rule. You are going to price the Johnson Ferry Baptist Church out of the business of providing for underprivileged children. And what is going to happen? Those people are going to come to the government for the government to provide that service. So what this will do is take a church out of the business of helping human beings and put the government in the position of having more demand for taxpayers to fund services that would have been provided anyway. I commend Chairman Alexander. I commend Senator Johnson and others.…”