. >> one reason i raise it is because congresswoman karen maloney has offered the same thing.if you haven't talked to her i was hoping you would talk to her so there might be some mechanism for keeping the two acts separate. >> i can comment on that. she and i held a press conference supporting an identical bill in the house and the senate. i was very pleased to be a lead sponsor here in the senate. her bill, or this combined bill, it goes further. it gets into things such as tax credits and so on and so forth. we tried to take care of the simplest elements, and i think this is a foundation we can build on in the future, but to take the simplest elements of flexible break time, break time that is not expected to be paid, it's unpaid break time. most states have pursued in that manner, and simple privacy. those two concepts would go a great long way in this effort. >> i think we accept that amendment. but i would appreciate it if you would at least check and see about this interweaving the mfla with state fairness act. >> i don't know the answer myself on that. i think there's