We all urge you to quickly pass the Healthy Families Act, the bill now before Congress that offers the best solution to this problem.
What I think has crystallized the issue for all of us is the H1N1 crisis.
We need to walk in the shoes of the millions of Americans who work hard every day to support their families.
The argument that we cannot afford to institute paid sick days right now does not hold water.
Our failure to provide a minimum standard of paid sick days also is putting our public health at risk.
Every year the seasonal flu and other illnesses strike millions of us, and every year the failure to let workers earn paid sick days puts th...
Passing the Healthy Families Act or emergency legislation that reflects its core principles would finally give American workers and their fa...
I hope that we, in the Congress, can honor Senator Kennedy's legacy by finding the strength and the will to get this legislation passed for ...
I believe that paid sick days are a basic question of right and wrong, as Senator Kennedy did.
Now is the time to protect our communities and put family values to work by adopting policies that guarantee a basic workplace standard of p...
For all of these reasons and more, Senator Kennedy and I first introduced the Healthy Families Act, 5 years ago.
I think, too often, we talk to each other in this town and we don't talk to the people outside.
I urge you to expeditiously facilitate his confirmation as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration.
We ought to be doing something here to minimize this practice which goes on which disadvantages very talented workers.
I want to thank Senator Shelby and Jack Reed and others here.
I often thought that had it not been for that tragic accident, Jerry Litton might have ended up President of the United States. He was that ...
This obviously is a delicate balance as we move forward in these areas.
But these employment protections have not been universally applied to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans.
