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Steny Hoyer: “I understand that. My example was totally a voluntary commitment by someone who will work for comp time. This is a bill…”

On the recordMay 2, 2017
I understand that. My example was totally a voluntary commitment by someone who will work for comp time. This is a bill, as I said at the beginning, you can work more and get less. Mr. Speaker, we ought to defeat this bill because employees and every employee organization that I know of has been articulating opposition to this bill because they know it will hurt employees.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland
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May 2, 2017

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