Burgess Owens: “I want to alert everybody to the fact that we are going to be considering H.R. 1, the bill which deals with the denial…”

“I want to alert everybody to the fact that we are going to be considering H.R. 1, the bill which deals with the denial of cash payments for overtime pay work to workers. H.R. 1 is called, rightly by the Democrats, the Paycheck Reduction Act, or some of us call it the Employer Cash Enhancement Act. I will have an amendment on the floor tomorrow in connection with H.R. 1. That amendment deals with two-thirds of the American work force, two-thirds of the people out there in the work force making $10 an hour or less, and my amendment deals with trying to protect their interests. I have been given the grand sum of 10 minutes to debate my amendment. That is 5 minutes for the opposition and 5 minutes for myself to debate an amendment which impacts on two-thirds of the work force. We are going into the session tomorrow with the most important bill that we have considered thus far in this session. It is called H.R. 1 because the majority party, the majority Republicans, consider it to be so important as to give it that distinction of being H.R. 1. It is first in priority, and it deals with changing the Fair Labor Standards Act, which has existed since Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal.”