Kevin Kiley

This rule has been issued under the supposed authority of an Acting Secretary of Labor, Julie Su, who the U.S. Senate has declined to confirm for 9 months.

The Biden administration wants to implement a new rule that will jeopardize their survival and put workers at risk.

President Biden has proposed a new poorly conceived rule to change the overtime requirements, and it could not come at a worse time.

We have seen it, for example, with the attacks on independent contractors, with potentially millions of workers losing their livelihoods with a new rule that is being proposed by this administration.

Republicans should join Democrats in supporting overtime pay protections and building upon President Biden's work to build our economy from the bottom up and the middle out.

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 195, after line 3, insert the following: Sec. 541A. No funds made available under this Act may be used…

Do you believe that the systematic suppression of free speech on college campuses has served to fuel the rise of anti-Semitism by silencing and excluding Jewish students on campus?

The thing is Harvard is not committed to free expression.

How is it that universities that have systematically suppressed free speech for years, how have they suddenly discovered the First Amendment and invoked free speech as a reason not to condemn terrorism and anti-Semitism?

How is it that in the United States of America in the 21st century have our supposedly most elite institutions been gripped by one of the most ancient retrograde prejudices that the world has ever known?

Mr. Parker, you are one of a number now of officials in this administration who has come before this Committee, and tried to tell us that two plus two does not equal four.

Congress has a Constitutional responsibility to use its oversight authority, and appropriation's power, to reign in executive agencies.

The Supreme Court noted that hundreds of thousands of people could have lost their jobs. Do you disagree with that?

What is happening in Chicago is a travesty, and, unfortunately, there are some in the world of politics who would prefer not to talk about what is happening in Chicago.

Today, I am calling on the California Legislature to suspend the State gas tax, as other States--including just recently Georgia--have done to provide consumers with relief from soaring prices. The legislature can provide a modest measure…

I will be coming to you and asking you to reconsider your position of noncooperation. The public safety, the public's well-being, for which we are all charged, is, I think, at issue.

Some of your cities have declined to cooperate with immigration authorities in the removal, the apprehension and removal of individuals, even if those individuals pose a public safety threat.

Mr. Secretary, last year you testified before this Committee that this administration's policies were not responsible for the surge of illegal border crossings.

We have a potentially enormous cloud of uncertainty that is going to be cast over all of the rules and regulations coming out of the Department of Labor.

This Committee will continue to do everything in our power to mitigate the damage by providing robust oversight, insisting on adherence to the law, and advocating for a new economic direction, one that empowers workers, expands…

We need to make crime illegal again.

I thank Representative Miller for her remarks. She brings up a very important point. With everything that has been going on with the economy and everything that happened during COVID, it really is stunning that we had people in positions…

I thank Mr. Good for his remarks. His point about making the rest of the country like California is explicitly what they are trying to do here. President Biden has cited the labor law that Julie Su was in charge of enforcing in California…

I thank Mr. Moran for his comments. He really hit the nail on the head, that if this nomination goes through, it is hardworking Americans--millions of American workers--who will pay the price. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from…

We should fight about everything else, exercising our First Amendment rights, but freedom of speech itself is foundational to the character of our country.