[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1626]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             AMERICAN SAMOA UNDER FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT

  (Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Madam Speaker, I just want to make a point of 
clarification for my friend here from Texas, insinuating and implying 
there was something special given to my district, American Samoa, over 
this minimum wage issue.
  I suggest the gentleman should read the provisions of the Fair Labor 
Standards Act. American Samoa has been subjected to the minimum wage 
law since 1938. So I suggest to my Republican friends, they ought to 
check their law and find out what the situation has been.
  The Northern Mariana Islands was not even in existence for the past 
50 years, only until 1976. So I want to clarify that for the record. 
And I suggest to my friend from Texas, read the law before you start 
making accusations against the Speaker, insinuating and implying that 
her character, that she applied a double standard to the company that 
supposedly has been operating in my district. I suggest to my friend 
from Texas, read the law before you start attacking the Speaker on this 
matter.

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