Political Quotes

“Well, let me just say something to the gentleman. I had an example in my own State, a very significant project. I urged the project labor agreement, and they turned me down. This is not the kind of project that we do project labor agreements on it. I was impressed that they made a decision, you know, and I didn't like the answer; but they said we have discretion to either do this or not do this, which is what I think we would want them to do because there are some situations where these agreements do add for stability between management and labor if you have things like, I think, the cleanup site down at Hanford in Doc Hastings' district has a project labor agreement. There was no strike so we could move forward and do this waste cleanup work that's so important. So I just say to the gentleman, I will hope that in the future he will recognize that there is no legal requirement, and they are not requiring people to do it and agencies are saying ``no'' when they think it's inappropriate. I don't think the gentleman's amendment is necessary and I hope that it will be defeated.”