Rosa DeLauro

I look forward to working with my colleagues across the aisle to reject the cuts and act a forward-looking agenda to improve the lives of American families.

We ought to be focused like a laser on their opportunities and their future, and yes, look at innovation, test whether or not it is good, and be prepared to say no when it is not working.

How can you support this Budget? I mean that genuinely.

I believe that this Budget is cruel, and I believe that it is reckless.

That is not the road that we need to go down. That is not what this Agency is about.

We do have the obligation to look at employment and training, and look at the best way to provide them with the potential for their success.

Your mission is the heart and soul of what this country is about is in terms of fostering work and giving people the opportunity for job training, for the opportunity to have a life with economic security.

Not on our watch, Mr. Secretary.

You have concluded on what basis that scarce resources, key labor standards agencies, are better spent on a program that potentially has no impact rather than a robust enforcement program.

You are extending the program without any knowledge of its effectiveness.

It is a pat on the back with no deterrence impacts on the employer or others who are violating the law.

Will you withdraw this proposal?

It appears, Mr. Secretary, that there is no empirical evidence that the existing policy hurt employment.

Twenty is not a sample size.

The Department proposed to revise and repeal protections for 16- and 17-year-old workers.

Your budget proposes cutting the Bureau of International Labor Laws by 79 percent.

They thought they were coming in to legitimate jobs and they ended up in massage parlors, and they were exploited, put into prostitution.

This rule is about benefitting big corporations and not working people.

I think it is highly coincidental.

Your proposed rule which would strip protections away from more than 3 million workers is almost exactly what the Chamber of Commerce told you to do in their comments submitted last year.

All's right with the world is not what is happening at the Department of Labor today.

By the way, the measles is at its second-highest level since 2000, so lest we don't think it is a crisis.

If it were up to me I would ban advertising.

Well, let me just say this. I thank you for your information--my time is up--but it is not working.

What can we do? Can we do more?