Thomas Daschle: “I am afraid the Senator from Illinois is exactly right. This is a license to import Third World wage standards into the…”

“I am afraid the Senator from Illinois is exactly right. This is a license to import Third World wage standards into the United States--to turn the clock back 65 years. That is exactly what we are doing. We are telling the workers that you are not only not going to get overtime, but this is just the beginning. If they get away with this, where does it end? The Senator is right about unemployment, whether the number is 2.7 million or 3.3 million. There were 93,000 last month alone. The situation is going from bad to worse. We are not only losing jobs, but those who have jobs are losing pay. As the Senator from Illinois said so well, we are importing Third World standards on those wages as a result of these proposed regulations.”