Political Quotes

“the junior Senator from Arizona is someone for whom I have the highest regard. He is articulate. He always makes a good presentation. I am glad he is a neighbor of the great State of Nevada. But I have to say the one question he didn't answer is, Why don't we just vote on this? Why don't we just have a vote on this overtime issue? We have agreed to have Senator Harkin spend 15 or 20 minutes summarizing his arguments, the majority can take whatever time they believe appropriate, and then we can vote on this issue and move on to this most important underlying bill. My friend from Arizona, who is the first person who has come to try to defend the overtime proposal of the President, says the study is faulty, that it is really not 8 million people, and some are part-time. Let's say it is faulty, which I don't think it is, but let's say it is only 6 million people. I would also say, of course, more people would qualify for overtime pay because whatever they are doing is allowing people who now are not entitled to overtime pay, people who really don't make much money--we would allow them to have overtime pay under the proposed rule. Let them do it. Let them have overtime. No one is trying to stop them from having overtime. What we criticize is why would we want to make one group of workers disadvantaged to try to advantage another group of workers? Let's let them all be entitled to overtime, time and a half. That seems to be the fair thing to do.”