I think we recognize in these circumstances that, on the one hand, the situation is time-urgent.

I think we all want to take action against the type of brutality that Colonel Qadhafi represents and save innocent lives.

Congress has a long-standing responsibility to shine a bright light on how the dues of union workers' are being spent.

And everywhere I go in my district and, frankly, around the country, what I am hearing is that those Americans and their neighbors want us to find a way to work together to create an environment in which entrepreneurs and small businesses…

To summarize, I certainly agree, this has been an important event today. I think that jobs are the single most important, but also looking after workers with transparency, sunshine and information.

I think it is important--and, Mr. Fox, I would like to meet with you later to discuss about how you feel like that the law can be changed, the 1959 law can be changed to improve it.

Workers deserve to know how their hard-earned money is being spent.

Workers should be empowered with the knowledge of how their hard-earned dollars are being spent.

In fact, the opposite is true. In the years that the Bush Labor Department was running this operation, the average convictions were 113 per year. The average number of convictions in the Obama administration has been 125 convictions per…

I do wish that we would emphasize the need to help in some way, shape, manner or form, bringing all the sources of power together in this country to create jobs.

In fact, the opposite is the case. The average number of indictments by the OLMS in the Bush years was 122. The average number of indictments in the Obama years has been 126.

Instead what we are doing is engaging in what I believe is a political exercise to highlight what the chairman referred to as a 'culture of union favoritism' at the OLMS.

You would think, that if there is a culture of union favoritism, that that resource number would have dropped. In fact, in 2010, we are spending $5.82 per covered worker in 2010 dollars.

the Obama administration has weakened union financial reporting requirements to the detriment of union members.

the policies that are put in place in the United States government have--the union donations, the political candidates do have a major effect on the direction of policies in this government.

I have no problem with that whatsoever. I do not like to do it.

President Felipe Calderon should be praised for his efforts to eradicate the cartels.

the solution, however, goes well beyond securing our borders.