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Paul Coverdell: “Your legislation, which I have been proud to coauthor, and I commend the work of the Senator from Missouri, leaves the…”

On the recordMay 16, 1997
Your legislation, which I have been proud to coauthor, and I commend the work of the Senator from Missouri, leaves the decision about what families need and don't need to the families, the workers themselves. The alternatives proposed--and there are several. One is to turn the decision over to Secretary Shalala. I think that is a pretty big job to try to figure out what the millions of working families need and don't need. I think she might not be up to that. Or to try to construct Federal law that manages time off, which may or may not deal with the circumstances of a family, and, no, it would not be pay.
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Paul Coverdell
Georgia
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Discussing family leave legislation and the decision-making power of families versus federal oversight.

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