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

I include in the Record a letter in support of H.R. 582, the Raise the Wage Act of 2019, from the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce. U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC, July 15, 2019. Letter in Support of H.R. 582, the Raise…

It is amoral that millions of people in this country are forced to work so hard for so little in return. Believe me, Congress knows, because there is a serious bipartisan movement afoot to provide Members of Congress with a cost-of-living…

50 years ago, the Apollo 11 mission sent a crew of pioneering women on a journey of incredible significance. All were astronauts. Symbolically, it was a representation that with enough hard work, dedication, and will, America could achieve…

I was not present for the following votes because I had to travel to my congressional district. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes'' on rollcall Vote No. 426, ``no'' on rollcall Vote No. 427, ``yes'' on rollcall Vote No. 428…

We had to work. It was our responsibility to educate our children.

We started out as a Nation that broke away from international regulations on us that we would not accept.

Democrats' top labor priority is H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or the PRO Act, which deprives private-sector workers of important workplace rights while giving labor unions almost unlimited power to impose economic…

Labor unions have empowered generations of workers to secure better wages and working conditions.

I also ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a statement from Senator Mazie Hirono, who has championed the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act in the Senate.

We are not against that, but we are saying there ought to be choice, that free citizens in a free country... want to continue.

I was a union member and benefited from my father being a union member and helping to organize steel unions or steel mills in Chicago.