"The funds also establish a Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation."
"Let me just say in terms of the effect of that cut on your effort to control fraud, reduce improper payments..."
"H.R. 1, the majority's 2011 appropriations package that passed the House in February, cut the NLRB's budget by $50,000,000, or 18 percent."
"If the NLRB doesn't have the funding to act on these complaints in a timely manner, then, in effect, there is no effective remedy for violations of the law."
"The only remedy, as I understand it, is by bringing the complaint to the NLRB."
"I think that is the point. They are not there anymore. Did you know about it? Someone did it."
"And, quite frankly, what has really upset me was that basically implied that the people who are trying to put the union together are Mafia based."
"This has to do with if we see the $50,000,000 cut."
"Amicus briefing is a good practice. It is open. It is transparent. It is engaging."
"the principal effect of underfunding the agency would be to increase the time it takes to resolve issues"
"I think that is an important point to be made. Because it looked as if there was some view that this was advocacy rather than information."