This is bad policy as it results to the consumer.

Let the market determine how the distribution of wealth is to occur.

The requirement to pay overtime over 8 hours will be a significant economic adverse impact on many companies.

Let the market determine how the distribution of wealth is to occur.

The proposal of the Chairman will require the creation of more jobs, especially, part-time jobs.

A mandatory 32 hour workweek is bad policy.

I don't think the Federal Government should mandate it, frankly, just to kind of placate a Democratic political base.

there is nothing to prevent a business like Mr. Leland or Temple University Hospital for a select group of employees to have a policy which would be 32 hours a week.

First, productivity does not necessarily increase with a shortened work week in the longterm.

We commend the Committee for starting a discussion about the Fair Labor Standards Act.

I look at France's unemployment rate among the youth. It is like 17 percent.

The requirement to pay overtime over 8 hours will be a significant economic adverse impact on many companies.

Folks want jobs, and they want decent pay. I agree with that entirely.

But in reality, there is no free lunch. Workers would be the ones who would pay, not get paid extra.

The 32 hour work week with no loss in pay, my staff has volunteered to be the test case for that.

there is nothing to prevent a business like Mr. Leland or Temple University Hospital for a select group of employees to have a policy which would be 32 hours a week.

There are significant statistical flaws in all of the studies I have examined and are regularly touted as proof of concept for the shortened work week.

First, productivity does not necessarily increase with a shortened work week in the longterm.

Flexibility is what we need.

I am going to move. Mr. Leland, right now we are trying to get a health bill.

The proposal of the Chairman will require the creation of more jobs, especially, part-time jobs.

I have the privilege to speak briefly about my friend, Bishop Larry Brandon, who opened up the Senate with prayer. I feel like, with all these pastors--you and Chaplain Barry Black and Bishop Brandon--he is also a remarkable man who has a…

I am here to talk about flood insurance, an issue facing Louisiana, and, I am sorry to say, an issue now facing the Presiding Officer's State. Floods can occur anywhere--for example, on the top of a mountaintop. People don't realize that…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Butler). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Louisiana.

I defer to Senator Collins.