Joe Courtney

When my colleagues and their large corporate allies attack unions, they are attacking workers who are seeking a better life.

The fact that you have stood with workers and workers' families should be something that we all celebrate.

One way Congress could help is for us to pass the Workplace Violence Prevention for Healthcare, H.R. 2663, which has 165 bipartisan cosponsors.

The way, you know, we clearly realize that we have to sort of, you know, fill those positions, is to close the skills gap.

In the State of Connecticut, we have roughly about 90,000 job openings.

Today's hearing is an opportunity to set the record straight and tell the truth.

Using every microeconomic metric, the economy does better when Democrats are in charge.

The unemployment rate of President Biden has remained below 4 percent for the longest time in 50 years.

A perfect example of our commitment is when congressional Democrats and President Biden saved the pensions of over 1 million retirees, by saving the multi-employer pension funds.

I want to see if you can talk about expanding the Department of Labor force's Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities initiative.

Let us be honest about where inflation comes through, and there are some great Federal Reserve articles about that.

Since President Biden took office more than 12.2 million jobs have been created. This historic, economic progress is indicative of progressional Democrats and the administration's commitment to supporting workers, businesses, and families.

Again, I urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation, which, at this moment in our economy, is so critically needed.

Again, your experience on the ground I think is just really incredibly important right now.

The Department, particularly in terms of the public service loan forgiveness, they were under court order to fix that program.

Financial aid offices are short staffed and have been since COVID.

You have been a long champion of this work.

I was around back in 2010 when we passed the post-911 GI Bill, which again was probably one of the most popular important things that we did.

The number of applications coming in this year actually went up 40 percent. The number of deposits at this point is down 67 percent.

I mean based on what your data shows, this has been a win/win for the taxpayer.

Again, it is really just a question of who is got the lines of authority on the Federal Government side...

The fact is that the ARPA was the more cost-effective solution in terms of rescuing these plans, and not putting the hardship on retirees.

Just know that there will be a lot of profit in the coffers of the union, but your kids, your son, your daughter, your niece, your nephews, they will be impacted by this when their programs disappear.

They do not care about--they are not stakeholders, they are not coaches, they are not there to see how this program falls and works out for the athlete down the road.

NLRB and union bosses say very simply, it is working, break it. As long as we get paid, keep breaking it.