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the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse has released some survey information on teenage drug activity that is absolutely shocking. The researchers found that by the time a teen reaches the age of 17, 68 percent of them can buy…
last Friday's Washington Times contained a front-page article which showed me just how far the President will go to win votes. The article claimed that the Clinton administration has pressured the Immigration and Naturalization Service to…
here is a headline from the Greenville News out of South Carolina, 2 weeks ago: ``Twice as Many Teens Using Drugs as in 1992.'' Mr. Speaker, why do we have this headline? Why is it teen drug use has exploded? There are probably many…
there is only one way to wage an effective campaign against drugs and that is to remain forever vigilant. With that said, it is no wonder overall drug use by 12- to 17-year- olds is up 78 percent when we have an administration asleep at…
In 1994, the American people delivered to this Congress a message of frustration and hope that a new legislature with fresh faces and a fresh commitment to honor the voice of the people that would radically alter the political landscape…
I am opposed to the conference agreement on H.R. 3448, the Small Business Job Protection Act because of my concern that the increase in the minimum wage or starting wage will make it much harder for those with few skills and training or a…
good news for all Americans today. Not only has President Clinton agreed to sign the bipartisan welfare reform bill, he has said he will also sign the bipartisan health care reform bill. With the enactment of the health care bill, this…
liberal Democrats love to portray themselves as the great champions of America's children. The President has even threatened to veto welfare reform for the third time unless, and I quote, it ``protects children.'' For the last year, Bill…
section 15(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act applies to any person who is covered by the act. H.R. 2391 does not change or affect coverage of section 15(a) in any way.
this amendment clarifies and adds a number of employee-protections which will ensure that the choice of comp time is truly the employee's choice and to give employees control over when comp time is used or cashed in. First, the amendment…
As the percentage of employees who must balance work and family or personal interests grows rapidly, employers face obstacles in Federal law which prohibit them from providing flexible scheduling arrangements to their employees. The…
We recognize that problem and we changed it. We removed the word ``willful'' in our bill. For those people that are not sure what changes we have made in the description of the bill here on the report, we have in there the changes that we…
I would just like to quote a claim by the AFL-CIO where it says the penalties for coercion are too weak. The response for that, the penalties in the bill for coercing are the same as those for unpaid overtime; that is, the amount of pay…
That is the reason the Department of Labor is involved; to give them the authority does not cost anything. The gentleman's labor leader Mr. Reich, I am sure, would be happy to do it.
as my colleagues know, while our Olympic athletes may start their day with a bowl of Wheaties, our Democrat colleagues started the day by trying to serve up a bowl full of balderdash sprinkled with horse feathers. That is what we are…
They can go to court on their own or they could go to the Secretary of Labor, who is not a friend of business, and he will do it for them to enforce that law.
American working men and women need the Working Families Flexibility Act. Federal labor laws mandate that overtime compensation must be in the form of cash wages, even if the employee would prefer to have paid off or comp time. The time…
H.R. 1114 amends regulations which the Department of Labor has issued and which prohibit employers from allowing teenage employees from loading, operating, or unloading paper balers and paper compactors, such as are normally used by…
I want to talk about the ultimate in special interest money and soft money. Much has been written in the press about the partisan politics surrounding the issue of mandatory union dues. And to be sure, there is a political aspect to this…
I do not know how many other people are in the same situation I am, but when taxes went up in 1993, and of course nobody talks about the tax increase, but a lot of us are with the people that gave you the choice: You can pay up immediately…
just as President Wilson once claimed that World War I was going to be ``the war to end all wars,'' President Clinton has promised to ``end welfare as we know it.'' Of course, unlike President Wilson, and despite two previous welfare…
I support the bill under consideration today. Many of us in Congress have been critical of OSHA. We've claimed that the agency has been overreaching and lacking in common sense in its regulations. We've claimed that it is adversarial and…
once again, the Clinton administration has stolen yet another Republican idea and called it their own. After originally opposing legislation that would let hardworking Americans spend more time with their families, the President has chosen…
anyone watching the news this week would have been impressed with the President's sudden commitment to promoting workplace flexibility, but my question is this: Where was the President last year when I introduced the Working Families…
medical savings accounts have become a focal point for this whole debate over the health care reform. MSA's are a new approach, but they do have a proven track record. A recent study by researchers at Cleveland State University prove the…
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