71 percent of Americans actually approve of our labor unions. The highest percentage since Gallup began recording this measure in 1965.

They keep the power on, and our trains moving, and they do not deserve to be unfairly painted in such a negative light.

The real way I really believe to empower American workers and ensure fair elections at the NLRB is not to villainize our unions.

Your Department really is taking real steps to make it truly work for working families.

Since it was signed into law in 2014, with the help of Chairwoman Foxx, the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act, or we will refer to it as WIOA, has really assisted millions of American workers in helping themselves gain the skills…

Thank you for coming before the Judiciary Committee today.

These protections would have gone even further to support working families by capping the price of insulin at $35.00 a month for private insurance as well as Medicare, but Republicans successfully stripped this provision from my bill, the…

Thanks to President Biden, congressional Democrats, and the Inflation Reduction Act, the number of Americans without health insurance is down to the lowest level in the history of this country.

There is no justifiable reason why in the greatest country in the world that medical bills are the No. 1 cause of personal bankruptcy.

If this Congress is committed to keeping our communities safe, keeping Americans whole, we must do everything in our power to support the ATF and its initiatives.

Thanks to the IRA, Medicare is finally able to negotiate with drug companies on behalf of American seniors and ensure that they aren't paying more for, than they need to, for prescriptions like insulin, and yes, that was my law, the…

if you truly want to unleash America's opportunities for hiring and employment, the solution is not to villainize and victimize our unions and our working people

the solutions that are being touted by Republicans today will do nothing more than to solve the major--do nothing to solve the major issues that are facing our employers

it's vitally important that we reauthorize WIOA and ensure that this program gets the secured funding necessary to fulfill its intended purpose

To make a blanket accusation that others in this room have no relative experience with violence or gun violence other than you is definitely very premature.

I am grateful that the Majority has provided us this opportunity to highlight the great and very successful work that the ATF is doing to combat gun violence.

As much as republicans want to say otherwise, President Biden, and Secretary Cardona are not breaking the system.

They're taking tangible steps to improve the system and make it more accessible for low-income people, working families.

Every student deserves to be educated as well as they can be. That is their right, and I yield back.

What can we, as members of this body, do to prevent this culture, this really violent culture from furthering and just wreaking havoc on our schools?

Every day that we refuse to enact the policies necessary to curb this epidemic, we allow more and more families to be torn apart and permanently scarred.

I, too, am a gun violence survivor. That is the reason why I sit here today before you, because I know how important it is that we change the entire culture that every community in this country is suffering under with the extremism of gun…

I have to say, with all moral clarity today, for each and every individual in this room, let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

We are paying for these weapons of war on our streets with the blood of our children sitting in our classrooms.

Thank you Secretary Walsh, for taking the time to be with us. I would also like to thank you, and also your staff, and the administration for proposing a budget at the Department of Labor that truly puts working families first.