I will now introduce the witnesses.

I was a teacher before the United Teachers of Dade was organized in Miami, and when it was organized, oh, boy, what a difference did it make in my life and the life of my family.

We started out as a Nation that broke away from international regulations on us that we would not accept.

We are endowed with certain unalienable rights given to us by our Creator, as the Declaration of Independence says, namely, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We are not against that, but we are saying there ought to be choice, that free citizens in a free country... want to continue.

But we are different. We want to make sure that our citizens, the taxpayers, are represented well...

We will stand with both of them and with all public servants to assure that they have respect and dignity on the job.

I was a union member and benefited from my father being a union member and helping to organize steel unions or steel mills in Chicago.

when some don't have facts on their side, they resort to bullying.

I call on President Trump to hold Ms. Conway to the same standards as all other Federal employees. President Trump must fire Kellyanne Conway.

I also ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a statement from Senator Mazie Hirono, who has championed the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act in the Senate.

Democrats' top labor priority is H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or the PRO Act, which deprives private-sector workers of important workplace rights while giving labor unions almost unlimited power to impose economic…

We had to work. It was our responsibility to educate our children.

Exactly 1 year ago, the Supreme Court in Janus v. AFSCME ruled that no public employee should be forced to pay union dues as a condition of employment.

The differences in State government are unique and beautiful things. That is the undergirding of this great democracy...

We are not any other Nation in the world. There is an international community. The United States of America is separate from any other nation in the world, and it ought to be.

Labor unions have empowered generations of workers to secure better wages and working conditions.

I was very disappointed to see Florida pass H.B. 7055, which singles out teachers' unions.