I specifically commend your Department's work to fight wage theft when employers fail to compensate workers for the wages they have earned.
Last year, House Republicans proposed a destructive cut of $4.7 billion to the Department of Labor.
I am here to defend it unapologetically as the foundation of the American Dream.
I mean based on what your data shows, this has been a win/win for the taxpayer.
We need to take a very hard look and investigate the price gouging that is being done by corporations.
And so it is just an important very important piece of ensuring that workers who go to work each day get the wages that they have earned in ...
Again, it is really just a question of who is got the lines of authority on the Federal Government side...
chronic absenteeism from school is a profound crisis for our kids.
The Department is committed to combating illegal child labor because we cannot build our economy on the backs of children.
we need to shut companies down that exploit child labor, and we need to send those responsible to prison.
the fact is that the ARPA was the more cost-effective solution in terms of rescuing these plans, and not putting the hardship on retirees.
This subcommittee has made behavioral health, I might add, a major priority, including the doubling for SAMHSA over the last 8 years from $3...
It is, therefore, our duty to invest in every American child so that they may have the opportunity to reach their potential, achieve their d...
We have an enormous responsibility to deliver for the students in a system that should be our country's great equalizer.
I encourage my colleagues to vote for it, as I will.
we were trying to get women and minorities into the clinical trials.
This budget is about making responsible choices together to invest in that foundation for American opportunity and raise the bar for our Nat...
For the first time last year, the majority of wealth for new billionaires...came not from their work, but through inheritance.
