Chuck Grassley: “I offered to put this sanction list in the Congressional Record. However, the complete list is over 300 pages and would…”

“I offered to put this sanction list in the Congressional Record. However, the complete list is over 300 pages and would be too costly to reproduce fully. Nevertheless, the complete list and description can be found on the Senate Finance Committee's website, at www.finance.senate.gov. If we do not act, 8 million people, including police officers, firefighters, service providers in a lot of different ways will lose their overtime. I do not know how we can sit here and accept that fact. Why some on the other side of the aisle would put the loss of overtime ahead of this legislation is something I do not understand. But I must say, there is no more important protection we can make than to allow the opportunity for the Senate, once again, to do what it did on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis just last year. The Senate said unequivocally we want to repeal the overtime regulations; we do not think they are fair.”