Political Quotes

“Mr. President, there are so many places that a person needs to go if Ms. Smith does make it through the cloture vote. Of course, I have a lot more documents and information I will be sharing with people. I don't even know where to begin on the rebuttal to what has been said. Internally crafted, no. It was brought to them by the unions. We can show where that came from. The Senator from Iowa mentioned that she met with small businesses in March. The program started in January with no input from small business. This is going to affect small business. They should have had the opportunity to comment on how the program would work, because there are a lot of privacy and other related issues in this. When somebody comes to you with a State card from the Department of Labor of New York, they could probably go anywhere in the business they want to. They have only had 1 day of training in order to be able to do this. Does that make them an expert in OSHA and in wage and hour law? I don't think so. But there are safety and security and invasion of privacy issues that were ignored, or it was consciously decided they weren't important. We asked about background checks on those who were trained and gave the State identification cards to: There is no formal vetting process for the New York Department of Labor to partner with an entity. Instead, the Department relies primarily on prior experience working with the group.…”