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Roy Blunt: When you set this number this high this quickly and suggest that one national standard makes sense, one national…

On the recordMarch 16, 2016
When you set this number this high this quickly and suggest that one national standard makes sense, one national standard may have made some sense at the lower number.
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Roy Blunt
Republican · Missouri

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Critiquing the rapid increase of the salary threshold for overtime pay.

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