This bill is critical because it will provide Small Businesses with six more months to figure out how the rule affects them, how to deal wit, an what things changes they need to make to stay out of trouble with the labor department. I urge my colleagues to stand up for Small Businesses and support this bill. I would again i want to again thank congressman walberg for his leadership on this. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from virginia. Mr. Scott thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield one minute to the Ranking Member of the oversight and investigation subcommittee of the Small Business committee, the gentlelady from north carolina, mrs. Adams. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady has one minute. Mrs. Adams thank you, mr. Speaker. I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support of the department of labors overtime rule that will go into effect on september 1, 2016 this rile wull protect 4. 2 million workers newly eligible for overtime pay and strengthen protections for 8. 9 million workers nationwide. Such a change not only puts more money in workers pockets, it also strengthen os our economy by driving consumer spending. H. R. 6094 is an attempt to delay the implementation of the overtime rule, taking 600 million out of the pockets of 4. 2 million American Workers who would have gained overtime protection on december 1. In north carolina, 425,000 workers will benefit from the new rule. I acknowledge the concerns of my colleagues regarding the impact this rule may have on Small Businesses, universities and nonprofits. Only 3. 4 of employees at colleges and universities and junior colleges will be affected by this rule of. Of those groups only a half percent of employees will be acted by the rule and regularly work overtime. Reserve the preserving the right toover time pay the speaker pro tempore does the gentleman wish to yield . Ms. Scott i yield the gentlelady 30 seconds. Ms. Adam spks i urge my colleagues to vote against h. R. 6 94 and support working families. I thank you and yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady yields back. The gentleman from michigan. Mr. Wall berke im pleased to yield a minute of time to representative glenn thompson, the distinguished member from pennsylvania. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania. Mr. Thompson i thank the gentleman for yielding. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise in strong support of h. R. 6094 6094, the regulatory relief for Small Businesses, schools and nonprofits act, introduced by my colleague mr. Walberg. Im fully supportive of its goal to put the brakes on the department of labors final overtime rule and continue to shield workers, small pisses, nonprofits and educational institutions from its potentially devastating effects. Under the final rule from the department of labor, companies and organizations will be required to pay overtime to employees who make less than 47,476. More than double the current salary threshold. While theres little doubt that the current overtime rules are in need of modernization, the departments drastic approach will do more harm than good. Marginalizing the economic growth, diminishing access to valuable service prossvided by nonprofits and discouraging upward mobility in the workplace. Mr. Speaker, in the midst of an economy that is still struggling, we cannot allow for the enactment of illadvised policy this is a make it harder for hard working americans to make ends meet. For that reason im proud to support this measure and i ask my colleagues to do the same. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from virginia. Mr. Scott i yield two minutes to the Ranking Member they have Small Business committee, the gentlelady from new york, ms. Velazquez. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady has two minutes. Ms. Velazquez thank you and i want to thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in opposition to this bill. With the minimum wage failing to provide a living wage, americans are working more hours than ever. Full time employees are working on average 47 hours a week. Nearly 40 report logging 50 hers or more. Yet only 50 hours or more. Yet only 50 of salaried workers qualified for overtime last year, down from 62 40 years ago. Updating the rule to restore the intent of the fair labor standards act was long everdue. An additional 3 of the salaried work force will directly benefit from the new regulation. At a time when lower and middle income wages remain stagnant, these changes will be particularly helpful for American Families. Our colleagues on the other side go on about the negative impact on Small Businesses. Yet the data show this is rule will increase payroll less than. 1 . Furthermore, this money will go directly in the pockets of the middle and working class. Who will spend it at their local Small Businesses. Its not going to diminish job creation in this country. It will increase Employment Opportunities in this country. When those workers will go and spend their money in the will call businesses. Theyre not going to go get a loan to buy another home. They will not buy a second hole. They will spend it in the local economy. So in turn, provides an economic boost that will create over 120,000 new jobs. This is a winwin regulation. Lets be clear. No one is asking to be unjustly enriched. Only to be fairly compensated for a hard days work. These ideals are advanced by the d. O. L. s overtime rule. Yet despite this benefit for millions of americans this legislation will delay the rule until june, 2017, when i am sure the speaker pro tempore does the gentleman wish to yield her time . Mr. Scott i yield the gentlelady 30 seconds. Ms. Velazquez thank you. When im sure there will be attempts to eliminate this rule completely. I cannot and will not support this attack on workers. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter this letter from the American Sustainable Business Council in support of the overtime recklation into the record. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Ms. Velazquez i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the chair will receive a message. The secretary mr. Speaker, a message from the the messenger mr. Speaker a message from the senate. The secretary mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore madam secretary. The messenger i have been directed to the secretary i have been directed to inform the house the he senate has passed bill. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. With walberg i yield two minutes to the gentleman from alabama. Mr. Byrne the gentleman has two minutes. Mr. Byrne i rise in support of this legislation to require a sixmonth delay in the department of labors new overtime rule. This is an illadvised regulation that will result in hardworking americans losing their jobs and less economic growth. Dont take my word for it. Lets look at what some actual Business Leaders and organizations had to say about the change. Richard a businessman in birmingham, says he, quote, will cut back on employee hours as much as possible since raising their compensation is not my option, close quote. Ability alliance of west alabama, which provides assistance to more than 600 intellectually disabled individuals, wrote that, quote, the untenable financial pressure resulting from the proposed changes would force us into Disastrous Service reductions and program closures. Greg from alabama is much more direct he write this is a he, quote, will have to lay people off to meet the overtime demands, close quote. First heritage credit l. L. C. Wrote to the expect of labor that, quote, increased costs cannot simply be passed on the reproposed rule will mean fewer brampling openings, fewer new hires and fewer lending options to the communities we serve. Our nations education institutions will be hit especially hard by the change. A representative from the university of alabama wrote that, quote, the proposed legislation puts more pressure on the Education System as a whole. They will reduce the level of services and programs or be required to maintain service and programs with inadequate staffing. Regardless, the quality of education will suffer. Close quote. All told this change will cost the university of alabama system 17 million in just the first year. These are just a few stories about the reality of the overtime change. These are real people. Real families who will suffer. I think this change should be reworked altogether but if that is not an option we should at least delay this rule in order to provide relief to these businesses and organizations. I thank the gentleman and yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from virginia. Pll scott i yield three minutes to the cochair of the bro agressive caucus, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. Ellison. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman has three minutes. Mr. Ellison i thank the gentleman for the time and for his adhave kacy for working people. I ask unanimous condition sent to submit two article which is talk about how the overtime rule is likely to add 100,000 jobs to the economy. One from Goldman Sachs and the other from the National Retail federation and without the speaker pro tempore without objection, they will be entered into the record. Mr. Ellison mr. Speaker, one wonders if there could possibly have ever been any Small Businesses only a few years ago. At its peak, 62 of workers were eligible for overtime pay. Today only 7 are eligible. What did they do then . They hired people. This idea that making it fair for working people who work overtime is somehow going to bring doom and gloom and destruction on Small Businesses is absolutely nonsense. Its typical. We hear it all the time. Anything were going to do for working people just cant possibly be done or Little People themselves will be hurt. This is a constant refrain. If big, big, big agriculture wants something they say, oh, were here for the family farm. If big, big banks want something, they say, oh, were here for the community banks. And if big, big, big businesses want something, and they dont want to pay their evertime they say, oh, well what about the Small Businesses. In fact this bill named for Small Businesses, folks out there listening should know that the titetholve legislation is misleading. The legislation delays the rule for all employers, including Small Businesses, but heres the fact. Walmart. Are they do they benefit from the fact that this overtime rule hasnt kept pace . Mcdonalds, burger king, all types of huge businesses which absolutely have the capacity to pay people fairly, but simply havent done so. Its interesting to me that our republican friends have had the gavels in their hands since 2010 now. They havent stepped up to improve and update this particular overtime rule. Were doing it, the administration has done what they failed to do. Now what do they have to say about it . It cant possibly happen. Cant possibly work. And its going to make everything worse. And you know, how discouraging it must be to an American Workers today. We this Congress Wont look at increasing the federal minimum wage of 7. 25. And a tip wage of 2. 13. A national disgrace. They wont d that. They dont take that up. Theyre constantly attacking the Consumer Financial products bureau, which has brought consumers over 12 billion. And theyre constantly trying to cut taxers in rich and dont want to invest in anything for the working peel. Yet they always justify everything theyre doing by saying, oh, it would hurt the working people themselves. This is ridiculous. This argument has no merit. It has to be rejected. Over the past 35 years, we have failed to meaningfully update our overtime pay regulations. Now is the right time. As i said, at its peak, 62 of workers were eligible for overtime pay. Today, only 7 pnth are eligible because we have let the working people down. We have delayed action to keep the help working families listening enough and we cant ask them to wait any longer. I aurge very strong no. I just want to say this. My time has expired. Mr. Scott i yield the gentleman 30 seconds. The speaker pro tempore 30 seconds is yielded. Mr. Ellison it is about real people. One of those is jody t. From minneapolis. She said i work more than 40 hours a week regularly and this will make a great deal of difference for me and my family. Lately i find businesses will eliminate positions and put more work on existing staff regardless of whether they can handle it in the time of the work day. If they pay overtime theyll bear some of the real cost of these decisions. Vote no on this bill, its a bad thing. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from michigan. Mr. Walberg thank you, mr. Chairman. Im pleased to yield two minutes of time to the distinguished gentleman from augusta, georgia, mr. Rick allen. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from georgia, two minutes. Mr. Allen i rise in support of the regulatory relief businesses and schools and nonprofits act. This legislation delays implementation of the department of labors new overtime rule for six months. Without this legislation, the rule goes into effect on december 1, leaving employers scrambling to comply with the new rule and jeopardizing employees paychecks before the holiday season. Very bad timing. As a Small Business owner, i know the challenges that the Business Community will face. Moving salary and employees to hourly, trouble recruiting qualified new hires to accept an permanent position, time spent monitoring the time clock and the hours to be cut and paychecks to dwindle. This is devastating to employees who have worked hard to earn a salaried position. They have earned this position to be salaried and then to move them to hourly and Many Americans will realize they have fewer job prospects, less flexibility in the workplace and less opportunity to move up the economic ladder. In other words, those who can least afford it will be hit the hardest. Small businesses, nonprofits and educational institutions. Could stand here before this body congressman byrne did and tell you all the Small Businesses in my district and employees who have come to me with the struggles of their employees and families will face because of this overtime rule. The president is enacting this rule a mere month before he is out of office to score cheap political points when he knows he wont be here to clean up the mess. Im ashamed, mr. President. We need to take a step back. Unsurprisingly, the administration has no plans to change the rule, so an extra sixmonth grace period is crucial to schools, Small Businesses and nonprofits. I urge support of this legislation, and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman from virginia. Mr. Scott i yield myself such time to consume. I want to remind people of the people affected and the people that routinely work overtime 1 , the less 1 10 of cost to nonprofits and to Higher Education way under 1 . And the time has been sufficient, the last time this rule was changed, they got significantly less time to comply and that rule was even more complex than this one. Mr. Chairman, i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from michigan. Mr. Walberg mr. Chairman, thank you. Im pleased at this time to yield two minutes to my friend and colleague on the committee grothman. Sin, mr. Mr. Grothman you have to pay more overtime. What does that mean. The employers will say get out of here. We cant have you working more than 40 hours a week. A buddy of mine back home, his daughter had a new job working for salary and he said make sure you are the first person to show up and be the last person to go home at night. And she was the first person to show up and last person to go home and having a successful career by doing so. So what this bill does is kind of a hard thing, it makes it hard to work hard. Her boss is going to say get outta here. It is part of a pattern we are sadly seeing from this administration to discouraging hard work. Just like obamacare, you lose your subsidy, better not work hard and a bunch of welfare programs, food share, lowincome housing, work hard, you lose your subsidy. We penalize the hardworking. On a daytoday basis, lets say you have to work on a project getsner 5 00 and not satisfied with your work product, what are you supposed to do. Turn in a bad work product . Ive got to turn in a bad work product because my boss is going to kick me outta here at the end of eight hours. Come republicans, come democrats, race to the chamber, vote for a bill 6094 and stand up for the hardworking of our society. Thank you. I yield. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman from virginia. Mr. Scott i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Norcross. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Norcross i would like to thank the chairman for his advocacy on behalf of all working families not just today but throughout his entire career. I rise in strong opposition to this bill and support the updating of the overtime rule, a rule that will combat the exploitation of workers across america and put more money in their pockets. In 1938, congress came together to pass the fair labor standards act which revolutionized opportunities for americans to make sure they were fairly compensated and in safe working conditions. One of the provisions in that piece of legislation was the creation of the 40hour work week. In addition, this legislation required employees to compensate employees at time and a half for hose beyond a 40hour work week. They said there is an exemption for protection of those workers who were considered white collar workers, as a result of their salary, work within an organization were exempt. The wage level which determines wh