The First Amendment guarantees your right to express your views. But we have to allow a civil discussion to occur in the context of this hearing.

There is no one in the state administration who supports it.

In every national monument, you have at least had somebody in the local delegation dumb enough to support it.

I think we do need to approve that Compact.

I have said, the only thing positive about the President's budget is that it will be his last.

It rewards friends, it punishes enemies, it listens to some and ignores others.

This budget omits tens of millions of dollars spent to defend against frivolous lawsuits groups file against the Department.

The people who need to be cared about and need to be served are those that are not going to be heard in this particular budget.

the only thing positive about this budget is it is going to be the last one we are going to see.

Ten million Americans are covered by multiemployer pension plans, and, currently, more than one-third of those people are in plans that are critically underfunded.

enacting the bill sponsored by Senators Capito and Manchin is the least expensive way for Congress to address the UMWA pension crisis.

today we will be talking about an area of retirement policy that, for a number of reasons, has not delivered on the pension promises made to workers and retirees.

The political power of pension stakeholders is often sufficient to lower regulator requirements.

We need to find a workable solution for underfunded multiemployer pension plans that does not come at the expense of those who have worked hard.

It seems to me that there is a basic inconsistency of treatment among different groups of retirees in the path we are on.

I believe Ms. Cobert has the right qualifications. I think the country and the office will be better off with her confirmation.

I find her to be a very competent person who is a breath of fresh air who actually has the background to run this agency.

I want to be one that is counted as supporting her nomination, and I think the country will be better off.