"If we are not willing to make the investment... then that is where our priorities ought to be."
"I don't think it is appropriate for taxpayer dollars to go to a Federal contractor who violates Federal laws, discriminates, or puts workers in danger."
"I do, as I said, implore you to please make sure we have a program that supports American workers and allows them to achieve the kind of economic security that they need for themselves and for their f..."
"I would say this to you, Mr. Secretary, and in so many ways implore you with this effort is to ensure that Americans have a fair shot at taking a job before we begin to bring in workers from other cou..."
"The biggest single issue that we have today in the United States is that people are in jobs that just do not pay them enough."
"This is a question that I think my colleague, Mrs. Lee, would like to ask, but she had to leave."
"About 17 percent of those tax cuts go to the wealthiest 1 percent."
"Thank you to you, Mr. Secretary, for your work in preserving and strengthening child nutrition, WIC, SNAP, commodity supplemental feeding programs."
"The language that was in the Omnibus would prohibit because we do not know what the future will bring us in this area."
"I do not expect it will be a back burner issue."
"One area of great concern to my constituents in Kansas is China's unjustified barriers to U.S. agriculture."