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Cutting the prospective foreign workforce in half will have an immediate and profoundly negative impact on the Mariana's economy.

Approximately 41 percent of hourly workers receive their work schedules only seven days in advance.

Lack of paid family leave policy costs workers an estimated $20 billion in lost wages each year.

An estimated 37 million workers - many employed in service industries and low wage jobs - cannot earn a single paid sick day.

unless Congress acts, the multiemployer pension program is likely to run out of money by the end of 2025.

Congress must address the multiemployer pension crisis and we must act soon.

I have no further speakers. I ask my friends and my colleagues to please support this lifesaving amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

This is moving money. We have enough money for compliance education. The problem is that it is like having driver education knowing that the next sheriff is 4,000 miles away--you are not going to get caught driving. We need Federal boots…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 713, line 4, after the dollar amount insert: ``(increased by $500,000) (decreased by $500,000)''. The…

I look forward to working with you, Mr. Chairman, and all our colleagues, to fulfill the President's promise, and include the people of the insular areas fully and equally in our national healthcare programs.

At a minimum, Medicaid must be available to our areas in exactly the same way it is available to every part of the country.

The only reason the hospital has been able to remain open, the corporation's Chief Executive Officer has said, is because of the extra Medicaid money that was provided by Obamacare: $109 million.

I look forward to hearing what ideas our witnesses offer, particularly the Office of Insular Affairs, on how we can make sure the people of American Samoa get the health care that all Americans have the right to and that all of us here in…

I have no further speakers, and I urge all my colleagues to please support, vote ``aye'' on H.R. 2664. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

We are frustrated, very frustrated for some, that the required monument, the key to long-awaited public education programs and the development of a visitor center is over 6 years past the due date stated in President Bush's proclamations.

the purpose of the National Labor Relations Act was to strengthen unions as an institution in our economy.

Workers should have a right to a fair union election.

taken together these bills are not just union busting bills, they are union elimination bills.