Steven Gunderson: “the gentlewomen who just spoke is one of the leading advocates of choice in the U.S. Congress. Apparently, she is for…”

“the gentlewomen who just spoke is one of the leading advocates of choice in the U.S. Congress. Apparently, she is for choice for everyone but the American worker because, and, no, I will not yield, I do not have time; because of the fact that no one in America will have to take comp time unless they choose to. It is automatic that one gets time and a half pay overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and under this bill unless they choose that, they would rather than doing that have some free time. In Wisconsin, we love to have free time in the summer on weekends to go up north, to go fishing, to go to the son and daughter soccer game, to go to Little League or to go do something else of our choice. That is not allowed today. Under this bill that will happen if the worker wanted it to. In addition, I want everyone to understand that this legislation in front of us will not affect one unionized collective bargaining agreement unless the leadership of that union in negotiations with the management agrees to add this to the existing collective bargaining agreement. All we are doing today is we are saying to the American worker in today's economy flexibility is key. It is flexibility for the workplace, flexibility for management, and, yes, flexibility for the worker to decide what works best for them at a particular point in time.”