Political Quotes

“I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. It is an old political tactic to use confusion. We have watched for almost 4 years the Republican Party try to confuse the American people about the Affordable Care Act. It was the worst thing that was ever going to happen on the face of the Earth. We would have storms, hurricanes, unemployment, wars, and famines, all because of the Affordable Care Act. Well, we are up here today with yet another attempt to confuse people about the 40-hour workweek and whether or not we are going to cause people to lose their jobs. On page 125 of the CBO report on the budget outlook for 2004 to 2024, it says: In CBO's judgment, there is no compelling evidence that part-time employment has increased as a result of the ACA. Everything you have learned out here about losing jobs is not true. There is nothing in the law that says people have to shorten the workweek. I don't know if anybody on the other side understands the free enterprise system. Businesses are run by entrepreneurs who decide what kind of product they are going to produce. They hire people to do that. They decide the hours. They decide the pay. They decide everything. You keep saying that ObamaCare came in and it is forcing these entrepreneurs in America to cut their employees' wages and hours. There is no such thing in the law. That is not true. In fact, my colleague from Washington State (Mr.…”