John Kline: “State and local governments are in deep financial trouble. They cannot be counted on to spend their way to prosperity.”

We owe it to them to set aside our political differences and come to the table to find a bipartisan solution that secures their future.

Former Chairman John Kline, while recognizing that the overtime threshold should be responsibly reformed, called the administration's drastic move extreme and partisan.

The Department of Labor chose once again to take an extreme, partisan approach that will hurt the very people they claim they want to help.

I thank the gentleman from Michigan for his tremendous leadership on this issue and so many more. I rise today in strong support of H.R. 6094. In 2014, the Department of Labor began an effort to update Federal overtime rules. There would…