"I'm happy to introduce Bettye Shogren, a specialist in occupational health and safety from the Minnesota Nurses Association, and the Minnesotan who inspired S. 1788, the Nurse and Health Care Work Protection Act."
"I'm proud that Minnesota hospitals understand that worker safety is part and parcel of good patient care."
"the Gross rule undermines Congress' efforts to stop and deter workplace bias."
"Last year, I passed an amendment to the Defense appropriations bill that prohibits taxpayer money from going to contractors who force their employees to arbitrate discrimination claims."
"I think it should be pretty easy to establish whose testimony is more persuasive, shall we say?"
"Would those be greater than the number of cases under which the opposite is true?"
"I think it is harmful to enforcement of civil rights claims, as almost anything else is, the mandatory arbitration."
"S. 1756 would replace the Gross standard with a uniform standard that furthers Congress' interest in preventing and deterring workplace bias."
"I hope very much that he was not saying that Gross advantaged plaintiffs, because that is certainly not the case."
"It just seems like to me that there is a higher wall to climb."
"I think I am actually talking about a different program, one that was adopted in Minnesota."