[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 35 (Wednesday, March 25, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1455]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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             FAIRNESS FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND EMPLOYEES ACT

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, how absurd are things in America today. 
Try this. Today we will vote on a bill that requires employees who work 
for a company to actually spend 50 percent of their daily job working 
for that company. You heard me. Under this legislation, if you work for 
Wal-Mart, you must spend half your weekly 40 hours, 20 hours a week, 
actually working for Wal-Mart.
  Think about that. When I was a kid, my dad made me cut the grass. 
What would he have done if I cut half of it and then we went fishing? 
That would have been a lively conversation. What if you were at a 
restaurant and the waitress served half the people that you are eating 
with. Or what if a football player on a breakaway punt return crosses 
the 50-yard line and stops for a coffee break?
  The idea is ridiculous. But listen to this. The Democrats oppose it. 
H.R. 3246 is not even a reality check, but a halfway measure to correct 
a half-baked idea that a half-brained Washington bureaucrat botched all 
the way.

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