Alma Adams

Did the USDA contracting process include any consideration for sourcing from nearby vendors, keeping foods within or close to their home state or region?

It is urgent that we help Americans facing food insecurity, and farmers who are hurting because of this pandemic.

The only logical conclusion I can draw is that OSHA's inadequate response to this pandemic has been informed more by politics rather than modern science.

Obama started work on a permanent airborne disease standard, and Trump put it back on the back burner, and still after a hundred thousand deaths, it is still pending.

I am upset about the future of this country that OSHA's inaction foreshadows.

I am saddened for the workers of this country who continue to lack adequate protections on the job.

And it is deeply disappointing that OSHA, the only Federal agency with the authority to enforce safe working conditions, is missing in action.

I can only hope that you and Secretary Scalia will wake up before it is too late.

The failure to completely address the life-threatening hazards that working Americans are facing from COVID-19 is not the fault of OSHA professional staff, but rather due to the unfortunate decisions of OSHA's political leadership.

We are deeply concerned about the potential impact of the coronavirus epidemic, and we are continuing to explore different options for providing workers access to paid sick leave on an emergency basis.

Today, we will discuss H.R. 1784, the Healthy Families Act, a proposal to establish paid sick leave as an essential workplace protection for our nation's workers.

I know this bill has been a priority for you for a very long time.

Women made up only 7.3 percent of apprenticeships nationwide.

The NAA hasn't been reauthorized or revisited by Congress since its enactment in 1937.

Registered Apprenticeships are essential pathways to a middle-class life.

The losers are the American taxpayers. In other words, the costs of black lung disease have been socialized and the gains from DOL's failed oversight have been privatized.

It should be expanded to cover leave taken by more relatives, domestic partners, and people who aren't blood relatives.

The FAMILY Act is the best paid family and medical insurance leave bill.

I strongly support Representative Carolyn Maloney's FMLA Modernization Act.

Please expand the Family and Medical Leave Act protections so more people can access the unpaid leave and job protection it provides.

These restrictions, alone, leave out 44 percent of private sector workers--or 49 million workers--from the FMLA.

What is the purpose of being able to take paid family leave if your job isn't protected, or of having job protection if you can't pay your bills while on leave?

we must pass the FAMILY Act so that workers do not have to risk their financial security in order to care for themselves and their families

I encourage you to expand the FMLA to address those problems and I urge you to enact national paid leave insurance.

When you do both, we will have the comprehensive medical and family leave coverage everyone in America deserves.