Tim Walberg

As we all know, the first rule of holes is to stop digging.

I remember going back to 2007 and talking to leadership of this committee about what I was hearing from my district, from Teamsters and other workers as well as small business people concerned about this very issue of multiemployer pension…

I would also ask that officials like a number of union officials who aren't on the same pension plan that their membership is on that they engage as well for the best interests of the membership.

I began to see that this indeed was a ticking time bomb.

This is a topic of great concern and it ought to be a topic of bipartisan concern.

It is a worthy discussion we have today with no simple answers.

The looming insolvency of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation's, PBGC, multiemployer insurance program is one of the greatest challenges facing American workers.

It's essential that we work together to stop the hemorrhaging of underfunded plans and minimize losses to plan participants as much as possible.

There is nothing fair or excusable about a 75-year-old retiree with healthcare concerns and medical issues finding out that the pension he was promised isn't funded.

I hope we will promote reality. No pie in the sky stuff. Actual figures.

I thank you again for this hearing and you have my commitment to do whatever is possible to achieve success for the people that we represent.

I am pleased that the committee is holding a hearing on workforce development for the energy industry.

I thank the gentleman from Flint for yielding. I appreciate the opportunity that we have to stand on the floor tonight as a bipartisan delegation, Republicans and Democrats who are joined together by a love of a great State, the greatest…

I thank the gentlewoman for taking on this issue. When we have heard words such as the Governor of Virginia and others who would say that it is okay for a male Governor of Virginia to make a statement; but generally, men should not be…

It is incredibly important to my rural district areas that we not be left behind as carriers move to 5G.

It is rural America that is catching up and too often left behind in the thought process that we don't need it.

I hope today's hearing provides a good foundation for finding a bipartisan consensus on net neutrality legislation that, at the very least, ratchets down.

I worry about this one-size-fits-all where even some of these proposed minimum wages are even standard of living in places like New York and Boston

Can you reasonably manage your network if broadband is codified as an information service under Title I of the Communications Act and is there adequate enforcement to make sure you are not gaming this exception?

one potential effect of more than doubling the Federal minimum wage is that small businesses will simply close the doors

I stand ready and willing to find a compromise that protects consumers from anticompetitive harms while not sacrificing longstanding bipartisan policies.

It takes away that flexibility and security to a great degree of being able to know that if I go to another restaurant that has a larger clientele or whatever else, it could impact me at the tip credit as well.

Over the past month, we saw President Trump put forward one offer after another to secure our southern border. They were reasonable offers that sought common ground, but every step of the way, Speaker Pelosi was unwilling to participate in…

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I thank my good friend and colleague from Michigan, and I appreciate the opportunity to talk about something that is extremely important. In our Michigan State Constitution, Article VIII, section 1, it says: ``Religion, morality, and…