"Unfortunately, as Mr. Alcorn stated so clearly in his testimony, there are cases where information is being misrepresented."
"As you State in your testimony, secret ballot elections are the gold standard for unionization determinizations."
"What I am concerned about is data showing that in multiple union elections, less than a majority of employees participated."
"We cannot allow, no matter who is the President of United States, to use that office for political motivation to attack many of the Federal employees."
"no matter who is in the White House, which should never ever, ever, no matter anybody in this room, should never ever be allowed to just fire any Federal employee."
"we cannot allow, no matter who is the President of United States, to use that office for political motivation to attack many of the Federal employees that act in a very nonpartisan way."
"I mean, even when we submit these into the record, it is something incredibly, like, daunting and scary to think that a President of the United States can fire an EPA Federal employee that is out ther..."
"for 15 months, under the guise of investigating the pandemics origins, my Republican colleagues have been probing our Federal scientific and public health institutions."
"I take seriously the allegations of unauthorized disposition of NIH email records by you, Dr. Morens."
"your conduct shows a blatant disregard for accountability to the taxpayers who fund NIAID's work, and, quite frankly, it really is disturbing."
"When a crisis unfolds, our government needs to be able to respond quickly."
"I'm proud to lead the Opportunity Zones Transparency, Extension and Improvement Act with my colleagues."