I fear for the union given what I have seen since I have been here.

The impact of this new legislation could be catastrophic for payroll as employees will have to be moved from exempt to nonexempt status simply due to the salary base being proposed.

We talked before about retrospective review. It is one of the areas that the Department of Labor has focused in on.

The standard of the economy in Oklahoma and the standard of living there is very different than San Francisco and New York.

If you do not do your job, no one else can do your job.

As Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist No. 78, the interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar providence of the courts.

The cost to meet the proposed regulations is expected to be in the hundreds of thousands and will have a devastating impact to the community mental health industry overall.

Congress should correct this constitutional imbalance by making it clear that agencies should not interpret legislative text beyond its plain reading.

They are very concerned about their people and about the Nation.

Congress is not doing its job because it has found a way to be able to hand off to the courts.

Judicial review plays an essential part in keeping the branches within their constitutional limits.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome. I cannot imagine what anyone would rather do on a St. Patrick's Day than to be in a hearing with two redheads talking about judicial deference.

I appreciate all of your input, your preparation for this and being a part of this conversation today and bringing this to the national conversation.

Congress has the responsibility to be able to define this, if Congress failed on its responsibility, shouldn't Article 3 push back and say Article 1 needs to do their job?

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Yes, welcome to Congress.

And put the pressure back on everyone to actually get the task done.

I do not think there can be any question that Congress has the power to do so.

This is not simple stuff--and I get that a lot of people are not engaged in this--but it matters because it involves billions of Federal tax dollars.

So, help me to understand what you gain by that, because right now--we talked about before, and I heard that testimony before, that, at times, we are not getting good supervision--it is not being enforced on this.

But, we do not know, we do not have a measurable result yet so that we know it is going to work.

I would have been thrilled that this was in place when I came to the Department.

it does seem odd to say that at times we are getting, 'We have to have this in law to be able to hold it,' and at other times hearing, 'Do not put that in law. We want the flexibility.'

Thank you to all of you for the work that you are doing and the dedication that you put to this.

we have tried to codify that, and the Administration has fought vehemently against us