Mark DeSaulnier

It's troubling to me when I see--not to vilify CEOs of publicly traded companies, but, for instance, publicly traded fast-food restaurants have gone up in compensation by almost 1,000 percent since the 1970s, while workers wages have…

It's nice when public policy actually gets discussed here so thank you very much.

I just wanted to make a comment that I'm supportive of what the chairman is after here.

I really believe you have served this country and all Americans well, irrespective of their party affiliation.

I want to commend, at the same time find it difficult in giving the benefit of the doubt to reconcile what the majority would like to do here in terms of pursuing best practices on storage and inventory control on Federal public safety…

I for one would enjoy being part of that discussion and just remind and submit for the record if possible a letter that over 100 of us signed to the Republican leadership to continue or re-instate the funding for Center for Disease Control…

I want to quote from an extensive article that was in the San Jose Mercury News being from the bay area as part of a bay area news group investigation, and it started after the Kate Steinle incidence.

We have to be willing to make the hard decisions.

I appreciate the panel. I think all of us have stories about constituents who have been affected by this.

As a former small business owner, who, my success in the restaurant business was directly related to my employees and how they interacted with my clients.

There is an appropriate role for contractors in the workplace.

I certainly want to thank you for highlighting the importance of skill and workforce training.

As you may know, the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, of which I am co-chair, has formed an LGBT Aging Issues Task Force.

I am glad to hear about the administration's continuing commitment to programs that support working families, educate our children, and keep Americans healthy.

Can you speak to whether ACL will be rolling out a guidance focused on LGBT older Americans, and if not, what will they be doing to assist this aging population?

I wonder if you would be willing to have a meeting with the members of the LGBT Caucus to discuss these important issues?

Clearly, these are the kind of things that we now know looking back that if we had fully funded them and kept them going, the achievement gap might not be what it is today.

I went to South Division High School in Milwaukee, a public school, with a low graduation rate of about 50 percent, but when a student came from one of these taxpayer funded voucher schools, there there was absolutely no records that came…

However, unlike Mr. Messer, I think I have a little different experience when it comes to taxpayer funded voucher programs.

It strikes me that public documents are public documents. We all work for the public.

In Riverside County, which I represent, there are about only 34 primary care physicians for every 100,000 people, half the number of doctors needed to provided adequate access to care.

His own story is he grew up in a very, very poor environment. He knew what hunger was.

In considering the reauthorization of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, the question we must ask ourselves is, how much are the lives of our children worth?

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act gives all children the chance at living a healthy life.

If I didn't pay my employees enough to be able to come into my restaurant it really had a problem to the larger question that you posed about an economy that is 70 percent driven by consumer purchases.