Watson Coleman: “first, we can have a great debate about overtime. I can tell you from talking to folks in Minnesota--I get calls from…”

“first, we can have a great debate about overtime. I can tell you from talking to folks in Minnesota--I get calls from the building trades and others--that the issue doesn't affect them. The fact is what we are looking to do is make business more efficient. That is what it is about. We do not want to hurt workers. I think it is about time we addressed the root causes. What is it that helps business expand or not? I think that is what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle at times just do not seem to get. You talk to business people, and what do they tell you? Cut taxes, cut regulation, give them the opportunity. That is what is in the tax cut. Increasing depreciation, increasing expensing for small business, if we do those things, they will grow jobs. There are a whole range of issues on which I hope we can find common ground when it comes to protecting workers. I will work with you, but in the end, you have to have workers, and you can't have workers unless you do those things that allow small business to grow. If you roll back tax cuts and roll back expanding accelerated depreciation, if you roll back the increased expensing, if you continue to short business and increase regulation, in the end there will be no jobs for folks to work overtime. That is what it is all about. Let us address the root causes of things that grow jobs. That is what this Republican agenda is doing. That is what the President's tax cuts are doing.”