"It is over 60 percent, as I understand it, Mr. Secretary."
"Your budget request is impossible to be met under those circumstances; is that correct?"
"I do not believe that those trade implications ought to take precedence over the safety of the food and the public health here."
"Today is unfortunately a wasted opportunity. Instead of building on the momentum of the conversation around Equal Pay Day and advancing real family-friendly reforms, the majority is recycling a policy..."
"Working families deserve better than a bill that forces them to choose between overtime pay and the family-friendly policies they desire."
"Today is unfortunately a wasted opportunity."
"This bill just provides a way for employers to pay workers less in the name of workplace flexibility."
"I am proud to have joined my colleague, Rosa DeLauro, from New Haven, Connecticut, as an original cosponsor of the Healthy Families Act legislation which provides paid sick days to nearly 30 million w..."
"I think I can confidently say most of us in Congress spend more money on ourselves every day to eat or feed our families."
"one in seven don't know where their next meal is coming from, and it is not food insecurity. They are going to bed hungry."
"I can assure you, Congressman, that we will do everything we can if we need to put in place a moratorium to have that moratorium lifted as quickly as possible."