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This Committee, by the way, must do everything possible to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

Federal labor law still contains racist and sexist exclusions rooted in Jim Crow. We need to write new rules that protect all workers--Black, brown, and white--to ensure we can all thrive.

I think all of us need to know whether this is just a market where people are moving money around and essentially speculating as opposed to some market that is actually achieving a stated goal of carbon reduction.

We are going to stand with working people and do everything that we can to create an economy that works for all of us and not just a few.

Federal labor law still contains racist and sexist exclusions rooted in Jim Crow. We need to write new rules that protect all workers--Black, brown, and white--to ensure we can all thrive.

In this country, workers have the right to form unions, and we are going to do everything we can to make sure that they can exercise that Constitutional right.

the very rich know nothing about how most people live, couldn't care less about real people, and firmly believe they have a divine right to rule.

Do you have an estimate of the number of subject matter experts on new and emerging technologies that the FAA has right now?

It is no coincidence that labor standards have plummeted as the percentage of people in unions has declined in America.

With the support of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act championed by Senator Sanders...

the quick turnaround, timely turnaround is really going to be important, as you know.

It's ridiculous that the future for tens of thousands of workers in a company like Starbucks is up to the whims of just one person--Howard Schultz--who continues to oversee a company that breaks the law without sufficient consequence.

It's time for politicians to heed workers' demands.

The first part was to issue a subpoena to Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, to ask him why he thought his company could violate labor law, Federal labor law, with impunity.

I just want some reassurance of your commitment to reviewing FAA's current staff capacity in the electric aviation space.

Free speech is the cornerstone of a free and thriving society. Unfortunately, recent revelations made in the Twitter files show that free speech under the First Amendment is under attack--even by those within our own Federal Government…

Employers spend $340 million per year on law firms and consultants to help them intimidate workers.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thanks, Chairman Thompson and Ranking Member Scott, for holding this important hearing.