Mark DeSaulnier

We saved retirement for 800,000 American workers.

As much as I admire people who own businesses, it is not discovering the cure for cancer.

The idea that the free market dictates everything, I think, just--we really live in a mixed market.

The market has already determined what the energy future is, what we have to do for infrastructure.

This reminds me of our long debates on this issue 20 years ago, when we debated in the legislature about extension cords for battery-electric cars.

Today, the collegiate sports industry rakes in billions of dollars, yet it is college athletes, who are the reason the industry is so popular, do not fully share in this profitable industry.

Collective bargaining does not always end up in chaos. The vast majority of collective bargaining works out well.

The labor movement delivered our Nation's most necessary protections for workers, including minimum wage, workplace safety laws, and the 5-day work week.

Some have even experienced food insecurity and homelessness.

I have my own questions about the electoral college.

We do have similarities with Florida. We are both big States, California and Texas.

if people were angels there would be no need for government.

In California, historically 50's, 60's, when we had an aerospace industry, and a lot of infrastructure for that, part of the culture in high school was career tech.

You are always welcome in California where the temperature is considerably higher right now.

the opportunity, but also the size and scope of what you have to do, just the size of this investment, and you include the $380 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act on the infrastructure and energy transition, is unbelievably historic…

We really need to get this right, given your background in California.

Protecting workers' rights to organize and confronting worker misclassifications is crucial to ensuring workers succeed in the modern economy.

I brought Peter DeFazio, when he was chair of this committee, and we were in an AV going across the Bay Bridge, and he had a phone call, somebody in Oregon. He said, 'I am with Mark in San Francisco. I have seen the future.'

I have spent a long time with my colleague Congressman Steve Cohen trying to protect the public from the horrors of side underride crashes, which as you know can result in gruesome deaths and injuries.

I am proud of the fact that my bill, the Clean Corridors Act, that allowed for the infrastructure, went into the larger bill.

In California, we didn't allow AVs on the streets. One of the operators, a famous one in the East Bay, Tesla, decided to take it to another State. Within a few months, there were fatalities because they weren't ready for it.

The labor movement is surging, but just as workers have urged their government to protect their rights...

I share your concerns to both prioritize safety but also to allow for innovation, because we want technology that saves lives.

Forty-two thousand people dying each year on our roads is not acceptable.

So-called right to work laws silence workers' voices, driving their wages down, and suppressing their economic well-being.