"I hope today's discussion is the start of a productive debate on immigration reform--one that seeks to serve this nation's workers and employers."
"We need to be careful about how we administer any temporary guest worker program to ensure that foreign workers are not exploited and that U.S. workers have a shot at available jobs."
"I mean, your testimony, Ms. Bauer, really was focused a lot on, you know, some real horror stories of people who were sort of trapped under the existing system with an employer and nowhere else to go."
"I think more importantly, those jobs would still remain as jobs that would then be available to, presumably, additional guest workers who would come in, and paid under the prevailing wage rate or paid..."
"I think we have got to embrace whatever sort of traction we can get around this town."
"It seems like a reform is going to have to do better, as far as data being available, again, to U.S. workers."
"Again, I just want to reference at the close here the, again, the positive signal that the AFL and the Chamber issued recently in terms of their, you know, joint commitment to try and reform and impro..."
"Together, we believe that in order to be successful in fixing America's broken immigration system, any viable remedy must do four things: strengthen our national security, create a role for employers ..."
"I mean we are going to be living with budget caps through this entire period of time under the Budget Control Act."
"Secretary Carter appeared before this committee a few weeks ago and confirmed that we are still spending $2 billion a week in Afghanistan."
"It seems offensive that the government might be pursuing an interest that the private lenders were not willing to pursue."
"We are trying to look after the public good, not just the return on investment for a particular bank."