Political Quotes

I wish to emphasize the importance of apprenticeship standards that safeguard apprentices' welfare with unions who have helped negotiate and protect them for many, many years. These standards are critically important to the success of the…

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…

Woman, the real motives are revealed in the rhetoric. This is an attack on unions themselves. The way that our labor relations have been organized since the 1930s when the Wagner Act was passed is that private-sector labor relations are…

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…