Congestion has negatively affected our constituents as never before, not to mention the quality of air we breathe.

Excessive tolls raise significant equity questions, of course, particularly the impact on low-income drivers.

I am honored to introduce my personal mayor, the mayor of the great city of Miami Gardens.

Experiences of discrimination based on race, national origin, or other forms of discrimination add to the cumulative adversity and put those individuals at greater risk of health and--mental health and behavioral social risks.

Madam Speaker, as chairwoman of the Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, I rise today to urge my colleagues to unanimously pass the Butch Lewis Act of 2019. Failure to do so will have dire…

I remind my colleagues that pursuant to committee practice, materials for submission for the hearing record must be submitted to the committee clerk within 14 days following the last day of the hearing, preferably in Microsoft Word format.

That is a crisis, a crisis that will only grow worse if this government continues to turn a blind eye or, even worse, continues to roll back protections for workers; and no one in this country will feel that pain more acutely than contract…

Instead of pointing to market forces and ceding influence to corporations, it is time that Congress stepped forward, protect our economy, protect those employees.

We will fight for you and all Americans who want to exercise their rights to negotiate for better pay and working conditions.

Protecting the right to organize is critical for reversing decades of wage stagnation and income inequality.

Rather than working to strengthen the right to organize in this changing economy, corporate interests and their allies in the Trump administration are exploiting weaknesses in this outdated law to aid their assault on workers' rights.