I think we need to address these issues with a greater sense of urgency.

The only fight there is the union fighting the employees who have voted clearly twice in opposition of forming a union.

We will not tolerate discrimination. We will not stand by idly while some groups--groups who have had higher rates of suicide attempts.

Card Check signatures are obtained in such a coercive manner that they can't be relied upon to indicate true worker support.

I understand that mental health is really a serious issue in this country, and sometimes it is the hidden illness that we don't see so much of the time.

We must stop being so complacent about our adversaries' growing influence in our hemisphere.

the budget request nearly triples the amount of funding for firearm research.

Thank you. Thank you. And again, as a fellow Alabamian, we welcome you here, and glad to have your testimony.

And to dismiss that completely and act as if it is not an issue I think would be doing a disservice to the American people.

We must cut the size and the scope of the Federal Government.

This committee, Mr. Secretary, as you well know, is a people's committee whose actions have an extraordinary impact on the well-being of our people.

But this, the vision is that it would be in the hands of every blind student that wants to learn?

I, too, am saddened by the fact that museums are not eligible to apply for Community Project Funding because it is a real need.

If you give us more authority and more resources, we could do more.

I was shocked by how many Democrats that spoke out against it at the time.

Simply put, I would just have to ask you, do you think this is fair to biological girls?

So, but this program, 21st Century Learning Centers, is named after Nita Lowey, who was the chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee, who was very, very much committed to the afterschool program, as I am as well.

We must respect their dignity, what they have put into it.