[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 112 (Friday, July 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H8561]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    ILL-ADVISED CHANGES IN LABOR LAW

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am here from the Government 
and I am going to help you. I am a Republican and I am here to help the 
working people of America.
  Both these statements are kind of hard to believe. We have a bill 
today on the calendar that will change 60 years of 40-hour week laws. 
The Republican majority this year alone opposed the minimum wage 
increase, cut occupational health and safety funding for safe 
workplaces, cut funding for fair labor standards enforcement, and now 
today they want to lower the wages by eliminating overtime wages.
  This Congress is not the friend of the working people; they want to 
eliminate the working people.

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