Political Quotes

“In this new atmosphere of bipartisanship, I am going to avoid being insulted by the claim of the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller), the previous speaker, that somehow we do not see these things. But I do for the record want to make a note that my daughter, who works for UPS from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. in the morning actually had two of these braces on her hand. She does suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome. As a credit to the company, they do every single thing they can in terms of job rotation, in terms of remediation in remedying this problem. How dare we, how dare we act as though we do not care about these workers or that they are not our own daughters and our own sons. Let me just say that, first of all, I would like to respond to the fact that this will save money. If this rule would really save money, then the Federal Government ought to apply this rule to its own workers. One may notice that the Labor cabinet does not inflict this rule on Federal employees, which means that, if there is money to be saved, our taxpayers will not save this money that could be saved. Why would we ever apply something to the private workplace and not apply it to Federal workers and hold Federal employers responsible at exactly the same level that we hold the private workplace? Let me also congratulate the workplaces that are already spending enormous sums of money to address this issue.”