Political Quotes

“as co-chair of the newly formed Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus, I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of the motion to instruct conferees. It is time to stop the all-out assault on workers in Maine and throughout our Nation who rely on overtime to make ends meet. It is time to abandon the proposal to block overtime pay for 8 million workers nationwide, and it is time that this Congress and this President listen to the hardworking American people. I rise today on behalf of the families across our Nation and in my State of Maine whose overtime pay accounts for 25 percent of their entire income. What message could this be sending them? Mr. Speaker, after working 30 years in a paper mill, I know what message it sends to the working people of this country. It tells them that their work is of less and less value and that this Congress does not care that they are falling further and further behind. I urge my colleagues to listen to the people who work hard, who built this country, made this country what it is today.”