Over the past four decades worker productivity has grown by more than 70 percent.

We need to update wage and hour policy for the 21st century.

But let it be known that there is a spirit of comity between us.

In a victory for working families, Mr. Puzder has now withdrawn his name from consideration.

This administration ran a campaign that promised to defend working people, but the nomination of Andy Puzder... was a betrayal of working people across this country.

The American people are counting on us, and we cannot let them down.

Thank you, Chairman Byrne, and congratulations to you on your new position as chairman of this subcommittee.

These workers deserve a Secretary of Labor who will fight to recover their hard-earned pay.

My Republican colleagues have suggested that the 346 VA employees who use 100 percent official time are standing in the way of veterans' access to care...

These vacancies could be filled by veterans or veteran families.

My God, if I were a millennial or part of this whole group of people that wasn't aware of this, because the law was not updated and I never felt the benefit of this updated threshold, I would begin to think that the economy was rigged…

Enforcing the FLSA and regularly updating the law would have meant that many, many people, workers would have felt the benefit of being protected by these overtime protections.

Letter dated February 16, 2017, from the Economic Policy Institute

Letter dated February 14, 2017, from Jobs With Justice

Letter dated February 15, 2017, from the National Partnership for Women and Families

Letter dated February 13, 2017, from the American Sustainable Business Council

I want to emphasize my commitment to working together, finding common ground, and advancing the positive solutions that the American people deserve.

This hiring freeze was highly, highly political and highly, highly expedient.