Brenda Lawrence

The average age of a skilled trade worker is 53 years old, and we have pretty much decimated the training and investment in a trained, skilled workforce.

Mayors across the country... are making financial decisions about the taxpayers' dollars in their community, and they knowingly know that their disinvestment in the infrastructure is going to have an effect, sooner or later.

It's refreshing to hear that the party, my colleagues are actually taking on the banner of saying how important our whistleblowers are.

The act of discrimination or a case that's filed, the culture of organization is based on that reprisal point.

Last month, the Republicans included the Holman act as part of the rules package for the 115th Congress.

I'm a fierce fighter when it comes to having a work environment that does not discriminate, does not sexually harass.

It's unfortunate that we have to have hearings on this in 2016.

It's totally unacceptable for any woman or man to be in a work environment where they are subjected to sexual harassment.

So this is the frustration. Not that you don't have a product, not that you don't have your free product, but where is the company in responding to this outcry that I have received and every Member of Congress?

Your company is continuing to make incredible profits this year. Is that correct?

In 2014, your company generated 1.19 billion in sales only in their specialty drug section because your company makes a lot more.

No one's more frustrated than I am.

Just imagine how much we could accomplish if Republicans and Democrats would work together instead of against this.

Twenty million people have gained insurance coverage. The ACA has also cut the uninsured rate nearly in half.

In the 6 years since Congress passed the ACA, we have found ourselves in this hearing again and again as it is being debated in some would call obsession with undoing and undermining this historic law.

The United States has over 770 million acres of grazing land. These lands are important to both our agriculture and the environment.

The importance of whistleblowers cannot be overstated.

Courageous whistleblowers like Mr. Coleman or Mr. Gayl, both Marines, come forward often at a great personal cost.

I am hoping this dialogue leads to some sense of awakening to Congress that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 147, strike lines 10 through 21. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 820, the gentlewoman…

To sustain your economy and your industry, we must invest in the skilled trade workforce.

These type of attacks are not only inappropriate, but they're dangerous.

Congress has no business--no business--interfering with these types of decisions that are coming in this--in your responsibility.

I urge all Members of the United States Congress to stop from inferring in specific decisions, particularly those involving political allies or opponents.

I found that very concerning, because here she is trying to start a business, and the pop-up industry is so exciting and really growing around America, and before she got off the ground, she had been hacked.