Political Quotes

“Again, I ask my colleagues, how demeaning can we be in the Congress of the United States? As I indicated earlier in the debate, we somehow or other believe that employees cannot make decisions. Only we in the Congress of the United States can make decisions for them. That is demeaning. Any employee can make a decision, any employee should make a decision. Now, this is even more demeaning. This is even more demeaning, because what we are now saying is that the lower your income, the less likely you will be able to make a decision. How demeaning can we really get? I do not care whether they are making 10 cents an hour. They can make every decision they want to make, because they have that opportunity to make that decision. And in this legislation, only, only the employee makes the decision. If the employee, after they make a decision, decides 'I do not like that decision,' the employee can immediately say 'I want to reject that contract I made and I want to cash out,' and the employer has to cash out. Please, please, give our employees much more benefit of the doubt than you are giving them. I have wonderful friends in every business and industry there is at every level and every one are very, very capable to make all of their decisions without any help from the U.S. Government.”