[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 97 (Thursday, June 27, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H6976-H6977]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              SUPPORT THE WORKING FAMILIES FLEXIBILITY ACT

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, once again, the Clinton administration 
has stolen yet another Republican idea and called it their own. After 
originally opposing legislation that would let hardworking Americans 
spend more time with their families, the President has chosen to co-opt 
this popular idea. This is a desperate action by a desperate man in a 
political year.
  When a Republican bill containing comp time, the Working Families 
Flexibility Act, was first mentioned as the minimum-wage legislative 
vehicle, the President's Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, called it a 
poison pill and President Clinton waved his veto pen at it. But now 
after the Republicans have built support for this legislation, the 
President ran down to Nashville this past weekend to announce his own 
version of a comp time bill.

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  The President does not show leadership by showboating, or stealing 
ideas from Republicans. If the President were truly committed to this 
issue, he would have pledged his support for the Working Families 
Flexibility Act, and he would work with Congress, instead of trying to 
upstage it.
  I ask the President to stop playing election-year politics and 
support H.R. 2391, the Working Families Flexibility Act, and I ask my 
colleagues to do the same.

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