"I especially want to thank Ms. Whitaker and Captain Brewer for being here as evidences of the public sector employees that this legislation would definitely deal with."
"This is a debate worth having."
"The two pieces of legislation we're here to discuss today are another Democrat attempt to put the thumb on the scale in favor of forced unionization."
"Workers should have a right to secret-ballot elections and should be free to decide for themselves."
"In a union that wasn't perfect, in fact this union, as our framers and founders said, we were to make a more perfect union."
"This is an exciting hearing and I think we are starting to get the concept around here that our education institutions ought to be serving the best interest that we have for careers and jobs."
"That is exciting to hear, and I wanted to hear more about that."
"How do you develop that relationship with business and industry so that they actually work with you and oh by the way, maybe pay the students as they are going through the internships?"
"I am hopeful that we can find bipartisan consensus as we move forward."
"with a little luck--and a little push--from both Congress as well as FERC, we could shake it up and bring our energy laws into the 21st century and lower costs for consumers."
"I have introduced H.R. 1502, as you know, the PURPA Modernization Act, to help address these issues."
"I would truly encourage FERC to push as far as you can into bringing PURPA into the 21st century."