"I personally applaud both the Freshii decision as well as the BFI decision."
"Instead of calling this bill the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act, we really should call it the Shell Game Loophole."
"I hope we can begin addressing the needs of American workers of ensuring that the productivity and wage gap narrows."
"The National Labor Relations Board should be allowed to follow their process... without Congress prejudicing its motives."
"Our economy is at a crossroads. The link between productivity and wage growth has been broken for 4 decades."
"Study after study also shows that workers' diminished bargaining power is one of the key reasons that we've seen a decade of wage stagnation."
"I think, if we set politics aside and consider the facts objectively, we can all agree that BFI should be considered a joint employer under these circumstances."
"I'm looking forward to your implementation of the self-reported monogamy recommendation, which I am certainly in strong support of."
"I think that we should allow tribes or states or counties to decide how to implement fracking, whether to have it or not, where to have it, and the rules under which it occurs."
"If your council didn't want fracking, you don't think that the Federal or state government should force fracking to occur on your lands."
"I think the majority of Coloradans believe that we have, effectively, no regulations around fracking, because we don't."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the Chairman for holding this hearing today, not because of some of the non-issues that the Majority continues to raise, but because I think this hearing speak..."