"I strongly urge you to oppose the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be secretary of education."
"Voters want strong neighborhood public schools that are available to all children, not private school vouchers and for-profit charters."
"DeVos has neither the qualifications nor the experience to serve as the Nation's secretary of education."
"DeVos' education agenda is antithetical to the direction Americans want the next secretary of education to take."
"I applaud the bipartisan efforts of my colleagues in working together on the issue of multiemployer pensions."
"We must make sure that these alternative plan designs mitigate risk to employers, but we also must make sure that these new alternatives do not shift an excessive amount of risk onto workers."
"This proposal does not go far enough to ensure the retirement security of American workers and other participants in multiemployer pension plans."
"If Congress does not act on the Coal Healthcare and Pensions Protection Act, over 20,000 retirees stand to lose their health benefits by the end of the year."
"I urge them, also, to cosponsor my bill, the Payroll Fraud Prevention Act, which would prevent another form of misclassification."
"The Department of Labor's final overtime rule will extend overtime protections to 4.2 million Americans."
"I urge my colleagues in the majority to rethink their stance on this sensible effort to prevent misclassification."