
Congress could pass, for example, the Employee Free Choice Act and make sure that there is more collective bargaining power in our economy.
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Congress could pass, for example, the Employee Free Choice Act and make sure that there is more collective bargaining power in our economy.

I have to say, and to think about what it would mean if that million workers made $5 more an hour in terms of what they could buy elsewhere in the economy.

If we cannot count on CEOs and senior management to reinvest at least some of the corporate profits in their workers like they used to, what steps should the Government take to fill that void?

corporate profits in America are at an all-time, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average continues to hit new records.

Thank you very much for having this hearing, for pulling together such an illustrious panel.

Congress could stop giving preferential treatment to this kind of income, to wealth income--stocks and dividends--over work.

We should be closing tax loopholes and havens and ensuring that corporations, which are at an all-time high in profitability, are sharing some of that revenue.

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I think reconciliation between Shia and Sunni in the formal government and in the underground conditions in Iraq is absolutely essential to our having a prospect of success.

I am very concerned about the stability, security, safety of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

I share your grave concern about ISIL, the threat it poses to our regional allies and to the United States.

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I never had an opportunity to ask him a question where he had to answer.

Do you believe that raising taxes on alternative energy and raising their cost of doing business will lead to job losses?

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I am highly skeptical about the prospects of expansive FCC regulation over every aspect of the Internet.

Then for the two of you again--and this will be my last question--in your opinion, has there been any widespread anti-competitive behavior within the Internet ecosystem that would warrant a prescriptive regulator solution imposed by the…