Tim Walberg

Another issue I feel very strongly about is the environmental threat the algae blooms pose to Lake Erie which is in my district.

The GLRI is protecting public health in the Great Lakes more than any other coordinated interagency effort in the U.S. history.

Today's workers are starting to consider these paid leave policies alongside other traditional, tangible benefits.

This century has a vastly different business landscape than the last.

If you could just get some passion about your legislation, it would go a long way.

Business as usual just doesn't work for working families anymore.

I want to start by thanking the chairman, the ranking member, as well as committee staff for all of their hard work bringing this bipartisan bill to the House floor today. Mr. Speaker, the EPA's brownfields program is an important grant…

George Miller was a liberal lion of this Committee. While we very often disagreed, I admired his commitment to ensuring Americans have the ability to retire with dignity.

I am hopeful we will do that.

They put politics aside, worked with employers and labor unions, and negotiated a set of reforms to the multiemployer pension system.

We owe it to workers, retirees, employers, and taxpayers to put politics aside, as we've done in the past.

I voted no--but a benefit for 0.02 percent of the country of $200 billion.

As we proceed, I believe we should be guided by the simple principle that it is not the fault of the workers or the retirees' that their pension plan is on the brink of insolvency.

George Miller was a proud liberal lion of this committee.

Hardworking families in Michigan have been squeezed for far too long under our broken Tax Code. Wages aren't going up, yet the cost of living keeps getting more expensive. We developed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with those low- and middle…

I thank my good friend and colleague from Colorado for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate so much tonight the opportunity to speak here during Special Orders. We could talk about the principles of charity from the Scriptures. We could…

I thank the chairwoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3441, the Save Local Business Act. For hardworking men and women in this country, one of the most important relationships they develop in the workplace is…

Under Jessie's Law, a bill that I have introduced with Representative Dingle, HHS would be required to develop best practices for including a patient's history of addiction treatment with patient consent.

I believe hospice staff could play a very meaningful role in helping to prevent instances of diversion.

the fact of your candor and your willingness to not let issues like climate change, like the issues of regulatory concerns get in the way of a whole understanding that we still have to do what we have to do for our people.

in the end we have to provide the power to keep the lights on and keep grandma and, oh by the way, me warm as well in my house.

I, along with all of our American citizens, recoil today at the senseless and evil mayhem and killing that went on in Las Vegas. We pray for the families of those whose lives were lost, as well as those who are injured and suffering right…

We've all heard the voices of local job creators who fear they could lose control of their businesses to larger companies.

It's time to settle, once and for all, what constitutes a joint employer, not through arbitrary and misguided NLRB decisions and rulings by activist judges, but through legislation.

virtually overnight become a manager of a large company