Political Quotes

“If this were a court of law, Mr. Speaker, 95 percent of what we have hard would be ruled irrelevant and nongermane to the issue before this body. Because whether one is for the minimum wage or not, all that this bill does is to clarify conflicting DOL opinions, and to make sure that when employers and employees and unions want to get together and agree that an employee can use the employer's vehicle, usually it is a pickup truck or something like that in the construction trades, to go from home to work and from work to home, it will not be in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. That is all that we really should be talking about at this time. We should take it one at a time. No one would be forced to do this. It would be voluntary on the part of the employee, and the commuting distance would be the normal commuting distance as determined by the rules of the Department of Labor. This is supported by all workers basically, union, nonunion, Republican, Democrat, socialist, communist, whatever. It is a sound piece of legislation.”