George Miller: “This is corporate welfare that subsidizes both foreign and domestic mining companies and should be stopped.”

The approach we have put forward, which is backed by business and labor leaders, will secure the multiemployer pension system for millions of current and future retirees' inputs.

I'm afraid that an awful lot of time and motion is being wasted trying to give the appearance of reform instead of actually making real, structural changes.

Trust these workers enough to give them this opportunity and this responsibility to make these decisions about their own retirement.

In 1997, President Clinton wrote a letter to the Governor in the Northern Mariana Islands who had hired Team Abramoff to oppose raising minimum wage.