[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3588]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, growing up, high school, college, even in 
the Army, law school, people were always coming up with these brain 
twister questions they want you to think about.
  And as I sat here today thinking through the debates going back and 
forth, I had a question that I thought might be good to ask. If a 
luxury jet liner is flying, taking off from Washington, D.C., and 
flying nonstop to San Francisco with one passenger and 16 crew members, 
and they land in San Francisco with the one passenger, the Speaker, and 
then, instead of stopping, they refuel and take off nonstop for 
American Samoa, at what point, if any, during the flight do any of the 
crew members fall under the minimum wage requirements of the Federal 
Government?
  Interesting question.

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