Tim Walberg: “I thank the gentleman. I thank you for your leadership. Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege to stand here in support of this…”

“I thank the gentleman. I thank you for your leadership. Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege to stand here in support of this legislation--good legislation--that will help people in my district in Michigan, a hard-hit State because of economic problems and, I think, bad, bad efforts and policies from an administration that didn't understand that workers who are encouraged to work to their fullest extent produce an economy. It is hard to take seriously the objections of the Democrat side of the aisle here when they talk about the middle class, they talk about employees and their efforts to help them, a party who enshrines the minimum wage and unemployment insurance as the golden grail of what grows an economy. I find that absurd. It is a party who has decimated the middle class in the last 6 years with policies including what we are discussing today. Moving from 40 hours to 30 hours as full-time worker requirements? I don't get it. We also understand it is the same party that told us, if you like your insurance, you can keep it--no. If you like your doctor, you can keep it--no. If you like your hospital, you can keep it--no. And now we hear their objection that basically says, if you like your job, you can keep it--no.…”