This is an issue of simple justice, and it is also an issue of contract.

There is strong exception to that by me and by many others that the court erred.

Mr. Tonko, thank you very much for carrying on; and, Mr. Ryan, thank you for your insight into what is so obvious. The American people do not want their rights taken away from them. They have the right of collective bargaining; you're…

Mr. Tonko, thank you very much. The view from New York is very similar to the view from California. We've lost 40 percent of our manufacturing jobs. We can get them back. We need a level playing field. China currency issues are very much…

We are going to spend the next hour talking about what's on the minds of most every American: jobs. How do we get a job? What's it going to take to finally go back to work? There's a lot of pain out there, and there's a lot of suffering…

It is perfectly correct for the Secretary to withdraw this area from mining for the next 20 years.

I want to come back to your Don't Let American Jobs Go Down the Drain Act. I love that title. But even more so, I like what it tries to accomplish. I'm going to come back to it. Our colleague from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky) has also joined…

These were private mines that were operated during that period of time in the fifties and that the operators abandoned the mines.

The proposed action of withdrawal is not yet complete.

There is a reason why the Navajo Nation has decided not to allow any more exploration in mining on the Navajo Reservation, because they have found it to create health hazards as well as contamination problems.

We could use the spent nuclear fuel and that technology, the integral fast reactor pyroprocessing, also could use the material that does not make it into the existing fuel cycle.

Thank you very much for the opportunity to take this hour together with my colleagues to discuss jobs in America. I think we know from our recent visits back to our districts that there's a great deal of pain in America. Americans want to…