"I should think that we would want to put that kind of provision--it is still, if we really want to be fair about things."
"In this bill once a community of interest group of employees is identified...an employer who seeks to expand the bargaining unit...organizers would have to get more and more signatures in order to pro..."
"Increasing our national capacity to invest in infrastructure is what our country needs right now."
"The proposal we are examining today was laid out by President Obama in his American Jobs Act."
"If we really cared about fair elections and fair efforts at organizing, then I think that there should be something in this bill that allows for the organizers to have access to the employee."
"I want to thank Chair Petri for convening this session to bring us up to date on what is happening with NextGen."
"We have had so many hearings on the importance of quality early education, and all of them--I would say almost 100 percent of the people who have been testifying in this committee over the years have ..."
"Would you support Parent Academies to help parents use the information you're providing?"
"With your help, it will."
"It is not a foreign aid program and people make that mistake, that somehow the East-West Center is an arm of our foreign aid."
"I am here to ask for your support of the East-West Center, which, although located in Hawaii, has international programs and, in fact, they have programs in most of the Members' States."