It is great to stand here with Representative Bowman, with our colleague Jan Schakowsky, with Mr. Kahele, with all of our brothers and sisters in Congress to say that we can and we must, and we will do so much better right now for our…

I thank Chairman Meeks and Ranking Member McCaul for their support in bringing this resolution to the floor today. Last month, the Burmese military, Tatmadaw, staged a coup and quashed Burma's fragile experiment with democracy. Burma had…

This amendment would strike the bill's provision that allows unions to collect a fair-share fee for services they are legally required to provide, and create, in its place, a national right-to-freeload scheme. This is a blatant attempt to…

Later today we will debate the PRO Act, and we will pass the PRO Act to free up American workers to form unions and bargain collectively just because they darn well please without interference from their employer. And when we debate the…

I thank the chairman so much for his leadership. Madam Speaker, at base, what we are talking about here is whether workers in this country are free to come together and form a union. All of these amendments are designed to undermine that…

I include in the Record a letter of support for the bill from the AFL-CIO. Legislative Alert AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, March 8, 2021. Dear Representative: On January 26, we wrote in support of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act…

I wish I had time to rebut many arguments, like the one we just heard. The requirement that the employer share lists of the employees during a union election is decades and decades old. It hasn't changed. In any event, I am here to support…

This amendment seeks to hinder workers' First Amendment right to assemble peacefully to better their workplace situation. No worker wants to go on strike. No worker wants to forgo a paycheck so they can walk a picket line, often in the…

This amendment is truly amazing to me as a longtime union organizer. It seeks to undermine the freedom of contract, the ability of employers and unions to agree on how to handle a situation freely together. The shock of giving the…

Americans want to know that government officials don't have conflicts of interest swaying their decisions. For example, did they fundraise from an industry that they will regulate? Might they take it easy on that industry as a result? H.R…

I thank Congresswoman Leger Fernandez. Let me start by saying what an honor it is to serve with you, and I think this is our first action on the floor. I am really glad you are here, and I appreciate your leadership. Mr. Speaker, I rise…

Let me just mention, the gentlewoman is so right that it is a floor. One of these arguments that we hear is, ``We don't want one-size-fits-all,'' right? Well, first of all, as a labor lawyer, the minimum wage has been one national wage the…

This amendment undermines the core premises behind the National Apprenticeship Act of 2021, which would create 1 million more registered apprenticeship, pre- apprenticeship, and youth apprenticeship opportunities over the next 5 years…

The tired rhetoric about big labor, big labor, big labor, the organizations that workers create and pay for themselves to advocate their interests; yes, there is a lot of support for this bill from the labor movement. This bill is also…

This amendment changes the word ``and'' to ``or,'' as my colleague from Arkansas pointed out, and it may seem like a small change. But, instead, it inadvertently could take away the employers' seat at the table for apprenticeship grant…

First, I include in the Record a letter from the Manufacturing Institute in support of the bill. Manufacturing Institute, February 2, 2021. Hon. Bobby Scott, Chairman of Ed & Labor Committee, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Hon…

I would just point out that the grants in Title II do not have mandatory partners. They require partners to the extent practicable in a given situation. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Mrvan), a member of…

May I inquire as to how much time remains. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan has 9\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 3\1/4\ minutes remaining.

Let me just explain a little more for folks at home who may not be obviously reading all of the details of this, the many pages of this bill, what we are talking about. This is about who is eligible to apply for grants, certain grants…

May I inquire of the time remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan has 16\3/4\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 13\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I look forward to discussing with my colleague a program that allows workers to unionize in the United States as freely as they do in Europe, and we achieve the same level of unionization those countries with larger numbers of…

As I have listened to the debate back and forth, I feel like it hasn't covered much of what is so exciting about this bill. When I was the chief workforce officer of the State of Michigan, it was during the implosion of the auto industry…

For 2 months, Donald Trump used the biggest megaphone in the world to organize a campaign of outright lies to overturn a free and fair election. On January 6, he summoned and incited a mob of domestic terrorists to fight like hell and sent…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank the majority leader for organizing this Special Order. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak for Senator Sarbanes' employees, and especially for my sister-in-law Nellie Freeman, who worked for Paul…