"We must maintain the commitment and promise in the OSH Act that every worker in this country has a right to a safe job, and the right to return home from work safe and sound each day."
"So, in other words, it discourages efforts to promote safety?"
"So, in closing, I believe we need to work together, absolutely, anarchists or not, to cut the red tape that keeps OSHA from issuing its standards in a timely manner."
"Because we have to carry out OSHA's statutory mission, and that is to assure, as far as possible, every working man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our hu..."
"We want responsible regulations that foster jobs and safety on the jobs, as I have said numerous times."
"We will never have a total safe society. We want a safe society, but we also want a productive society."
"We have strong disagreements with the massive Medicaid expansion contained in the President's takeover of health care, but we should be able to find common ground."
"The taxpayer program should not serve as inheritance protection and that the rules that can be navigated so millionaires can qualify for welfare are in desperate need of reform."
"We need to be figuring out ways to reform Medicare and Medicaid, not to expand it."
"when we hear about tens of billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse, it is unacceptable."
"we are hiring up in Iraq to the tune of 17,000 contractors in an unbelievable amount of money."
"You are going to find Republicans and Democrats very united, working together on this."