"He indeed is a great champion of transparency in government and public integrity, and we owe him a great deal of credit."
"I am dumbfounded and baffled by this law enforcement technique, which just seems patently ridiculous to me."
"I will ask colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join me in urging the administration to respect all Members of Congress."
"She said when you are sick, you can't work. And if you can't work, you can't earn. And if you can't earn, you can't pay a policy."
"Over the past several decades, the productivity of American workers has grown higher than ever before. At the same time, corporations, shareholders, CEOs have been exploiting these workers and hoardin..."
"It is not just wages that are stagnating. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that inequality in total compensation is worsening even more rapidly than wages alone."
"For years, they have refused to allow Congress to vote on democratic legislation to raise the minimum wage."
"The real lesson for today's hearing is not that middle class Federal workers are making too much. It is that private sector workers, especially those with the lowest incomes and educations are making ..."
"high-ranking public employees... are underpaid compared to what they could be making in the private sector."
"the Federal Government was the place that was open to hiring women and members of racial minority groups when the private sector refused."
"So on that theory we would not want to allow extreme inequality in the private sector to become the justification for driving wages down further in the public sector."