Don Nickles: “I think he asked me. They may have been working on this Department of Labor takeover of, I don't know what--workers…”

“I think he asked me. They may have been working on this Department of Labor takeover of, I don't know what--workers involvement. But they issued the rule on November 23 of last year--a rule that has 600 pages. They may have been working on it for 10 years, but I doubt that. This administration hasn't been in office quite that long. But with enormous expense. I think, again, we should have a vote. To give an example, I came from manufacturing, and we lifted and moved a lot of heavy things. I don't really think somebody from the Department of Labor could come into Nickles Machine Corporation and say: Hey, we know the limits on what somebody can lift as far as pistons and cylinders and bearings are concerned. Therefore, we suggest you put a maximum on it. Or maybe every Senator--everybody has a machine shop, or every Senator has a bottling company. Somebody comes into the Senate every day and loads the Coke machines and the Pepsi machines. This rule says that you can't lift that many cases; that you can't lift two cases at once, or one case, or maybe you can only lift a six-pack or something. The net result would be an estimate that bottlers would have to hire twice as many people. Maybe this is an employment bill. My point is you could increase costs dramatically with draconian results without even knowing what we are doing.…”