Mike Enzi: “speaking purely on my own behalf but hopefully reflecting some of the feelings of the leader, we are terribly…”

“speaking purely on my own behalf but hopefully reflecting some of the feelings of the leader, we are terribly disappointed that until the time is set exactly as the time the Presidential candidates want to have the vote, no other business can happen in this Chamber. That isn't how this ought to work. We ought to be proceeding on other amendments. We ought to be wrapping this thing up and getting down to what evidently could be the last vote. It needs to happen. I am terribly disappointed the overtime rule has been made into such a political hot issue. It is a proposed rule. The way rules work around here is they get published so there can be comments. There have been 80,000 comments. This amendment doesn't stop the rule. At this point, it stops the review of those comments. The Secretary of Labor can't even look at the 80,000 comments to see if she made a mistake in the rule. It appears there are some concerns about the rule and the way it is written. But it can't even be rewritten, if this amendment passes. This amendment takes away the right of the Secretary to review those 80,000 comments so changes can be made, if needed, to the rule. That is how we do rules around here. To take the money away and stop that process I don't think is the right way to do it. We have a process in place. We even have a process for overcoming the process. That is the Congressional Review Act.”