ms. duncan, you're going to wrap us up. thank you. ms. duncan: i would like to thank the committee for the invitation to speak with you today. operation smile is an international medical charity that has provided hundreds of thousands of free surgeries for children and young adults in developing countries who are born with a cleft lip, cleft palette or other facial deformityies deformities. i'm here to express our opinions to the overtime exemption regulations, specifically the drastic increase to the threshold salary level of $50,400. while all employers will feel the impact of such a drastic change, there will be a tremendous negative impact on the non-profit organizations, especially taking into account the unique challenges of an organization operating globally. we have made tremendous efforts over the last years to align our salaries to be more competitive with the for-profit space. yet, still, this proposed update will increase our payroll costs nearly $1 million annually, affecting over 50% of our workforce. this is not a financial

ms. duncan, you're going to wrap us up. thank you. >> i would like to thank the committee for the invitation to speak with you today. operation smile is an international medical charity that has provided hundreds of thousands of free surgeries for children and young adults in developing countries who are born with a cleft lip, cleft palate or other facial deformities. i'm here to express concerns of our leadership team over proposed changes to overtime exemption regulations. specifically the drastic increase to the threshold salary level of 50,400. while all employers will feel the impact of such a drastic change, there will be a tremendous negative impact on the non-profit organizations, especially taking into account the unique challenges of an organization operating globally. we have made tremendous efforts over the last years to align our salaries to be more competitive with the for-profit space. yet still, this proposed update will increase our payroll costs nearly $1 million annually, affecting over 50% of our workfor

ms. duncan? they also said familiarity with the neighborhood. ms. garrett lives like, 18 or 20 miles away. ms. duncan lived -- her school was 250 yards away, and she lived a half mile from the school. both of them answered that they they weren't familiar with the area where the victim lived. now then, some more questions after those answers would have provided a difference. but instead ms. garrett is treated as a liar, and ms. duncan is accepted and actually serves as a juror in this case. and there are other examples with mr. hood particularly with regard to the child. if you had asked what about your child who's arrested, he was put on probation -- $180 of -- can i have just a second? -- $180 restitution. and he went off to, this is in the record, went off to the navy, served his country honorably, got an honorable discharge and came back. >> thank you, counsel. case is submitted. >> associate supreme court justice sonia sotomayor recently spoke at rutgers university in new jersey about her judicial career and her time on the high court. she talke

ms. duncan? ms. duncan, if you look at -- they also said familiarity with the neighborhood. ms.tt lives like 18 or 20 miles away. ms. duncan, her school was 250 yards away and she lives a half mile from the school. both of them answered that they weren't familiar with the area where the victim lived. some more questions after those answers would have provided a difference. but instead, ms. garrett is treated as a liar and ms. duncan is accepted and actually serves as a juror in this case. and there are other examples with mr. hood particularly with regard to the child. if you had asked what about your child who was arrested. he was $180 of -- $180 restitution and he went off to the navy, served his country honorably, got an honorable discharge and came back. >> thank you, counsel. case is submitted. >>> at 7:00 p.m. tonight live on cspan 2 afghanistan's ambassador talks about current relations with his >>> tonight on "the communicators," we broadcast from the intx conference in boston known as the internet and television expo sponsored by the national cable and telecommunication

ms. nancy duncan is the associate vice president of human resources for operation smile, a nonprofit federal service dedicated to providing clef lip pallet repair surgeries. she's she's based out of virginia beach and has more than two decades of hr experience. so, again, welcome to all of you, thank you for being here and we'll start with ms. m >> >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with you today regarding how the department's changes to the over time regulations will impact small businesses. of course, most concerns of small business is the department's proposal to increase the minimum level for exemption by 113% for the current 26. the purpose of setting a minimum salary level as the department itself has stated since 1949 is to provide a method of screening out the obviously nonexempt employees. d.o.l. d.o.l. proposed does exactly the opposite. excluding excluding from the exemption many employees who obviously performed exempt duties, including employees found to be exempt by department investigators and the federal such such a

ms. lummis. >> yes. >> mr. ruse? >> yes. >> mr. benishek. >> yes. >> mr. loanthal? >> yes. >> mr. duncan? >> no. >> mr. cartwright? mr. gozar? mr. be ye ye? >> yes. >> mrs. torres? >> present. >> ms dingle? >> yes. >> mr. dunham? >> yes. >> mr. giaga. >> yes. >> mr. cook? mrs. caps? >> yes. >> mr. westerman. >> yes. >> mr. pulis? >> yes. >> mr. graves. >> yes. >> mr. clay? >> yes. >> mr. newhouse? >> no. >> mr. zinki? >> yes. >> mr. heist? >> yes. >> ma'am? >> yes. >> mr. maccar author? >> yes. >> mr. mooney? mr. hardy? >> no. >> mr. lahood? >> yes. >> is there anyone who hasn't voted? >> mr. cartwright has not been recorded? >> yes. >> mr. gozar? >> no. >> mr. wittman? >> no. >> mr. lamborn? >> i'm sorry. mr. gozart votes no. >> yes. mr. wittman votes no. >> votes no. >> mr. lamborn? >> no. >> mr. lamborn votes no. >> is that everybody? clerk will report. and actually, after this, we've got to do this? this is technical. mr. chairman, on this vote, the yay 29 and the nay 10. >> the bill is approved as amended. and the ordered -- favorably reported. slate on the table. if you guys want to go vote i have to do some other crap here

ms. ruiz votes no. >> mr. lowenthal? mr. lowenthal votes no. mr. duncan votes yes. mr. gosar votes yes. mr. labrador? mr. labrador votes now. mr. lamotta? they vote yes. single votes no. mr. dunham votes no. mr. cook? mr. cook votes yes. this cap's votes no. mr. polis votes no. mr. clay? did mr. clay votes no. mr. newhouse votes no. --chers and give votes now mr. macarthur? mr. mooney? mr. hardy? mr. hardy votes no. they vote yes. >> has anyone not voted? gomer? mr. gomer votes yes. >> anyone else? the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, the ayes are 12, the nays are 26. >> will go through several of the amendment right now. to be very careful with the president we said in this a bill. we are, in many ways, in uncharted waters. most glaring examples is the stay on lawsuits. this was first introduced from the minority leader, nancy pelosi just looking at the policy without consideration of the politics, it deprives american citizens of access to the judicial system with respect to defending their private property rights. you get my republican colleagues quite a chill, unlike those who advocate for sociali

ben varine and sandy duncan played ms. ann reynolds. good morning to you all.hed "roots" that week in 1977. at the time there were 221 million people in the united states. how do you explain those staggering numbers? what was the draw? >> a blessed epiphany. it is when something happens which you have no idea. >> you had no idea. i remember vividly i was 7 years old. it was the first conversation that my mother and my father had with me about slavery. i remember just my mother's reaction of crying and not understanding because i'm a kid. and then later really knowing that this is my life and my history. you heard from people your whole life reacting to what we saw then. >> it was a magical moment in television. material it never been covered that extensively before and then coming out of the best seller made it a winner before it even got on the starting blocks. >> we start to see the early signs of emancipation. why do you think that character was so critical to the story? >> because he was the one that brought the new. and all praise to alex haley for his vis

duncan. >> yes. >> mr. cartwright. >> no. >> mr. gose art? >> mr. goe sar votes yes. ms. torres votes no. mr. la mauve fa votes yes. ms. tingle. mr. denim mr. denim votes no. mr. gallego. no. mr. cook. yes. >> mr. cook votes yes. ms. caps? ms. caps votes no. mr. wasserman. no. >> mr. pol is votes no. mr. graves votes no. mr. clay. >> no. >> mr. clay votes no. mr. new house. >> no. >> zincy. >> mr. mcaur their. mr. mooney? mr. hardy. >> no. >> mr. hardy votes no. mr. lahood. >> mr. loo hood votes yes. >> anyone not voted? mr. gohmert has not vote. >> mr. gohmert -- >> i change my vote to yes. >> mr. gohmert votes yes. >> anyone else? the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, on this vote, the ayes are 12 and the nays are 26. >> motion is not -- the amendment fails. mr. flemming, we got seven amendments. we're going to go through several of them right now. start next one is 079. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, we have to be very with the precedence we are setting in this bill. promesa represents a brand-new approach that's never been tried before. and we are in many ways in unchartered waters. one of the most gla