As it stands, some Federal employees do not receive equal compensation and benefits for their equal contributions.

Historically, the Federal Government has been a leader in offering important benefits to its employees. But today we are lagging behind, and this is particularly true regarding the extension of benefits to employees with same-sex partners.

I strongly believe that we must address the significant inequality in compensation experienced by an estimated 30,000 employees.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Ranking Member Collins, for affording me the opportunity to testify, for having this historic hearing, and for your leadership on the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act.

The Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program needs to remain viable and it should be a model in this new field of long-term care as it was originally envisioned.

I discussed my bill to eliminate the wholly unwarranted antitrust exemption enjoyed by the freight railroad industry.

We meet today to examine the state of competition in the health insurance market, a topic of great interest to all Americans.

vigorous competition in the health insurance industry is essential to lower health insurance premiums for consumers as well as businesses.

Many industry observers blame sharp industry consolidation for these rising premiums.

Dairy farmers across our country are facing acute economic pain... They have lost more than $4 billion in their equity.

The antitrust laws enacted in the early 20th century provide essential protections for consumers and businesses.

OPM can never let this happen again.

I urge your committees to find a way to correct these wrongs, and NTEU pledges to work with you on that.

I feel intense personal frustration when I know facts that would rebut a case that an Administration is making.

the immediate should not overwhelm the future.

I don't think it's a reasonable approach to statutory interpretation to say that somehow you can import that language into another amendment that isn't there and that that isn't a prohibition.

This is not a matter of whether there's an obligation to provide full and current notification, but how it's provided.

I think there's something that we now need to do about that.