Mr. Speaker, the President has burdened the Nation with 4 straight years of trillion dollar deficits and has added more than $5 trillion to our national defense. His failed policies have done nothing but make our economy worse. Now he…

Thank you, Chairman Upton, for yielding me time and bringing this important bill to the floor. Mr. Chairman, the Obama administration has failed the American people by squandering half a billion of our hard-earned tax dollars on costly…

I think part of the reason we have gotten into this situation... is the problems with the NLRA.

We are not fiddling while Rome burns; we are looking at the issues, we are looking at the threats to our Constitution that have been established by this administration.

Clearly, the rhetoric doesn't match the reality.

The NLRB has made its agenda clear. Routine cases involving a single workplace have been hijacked in order to impose sweeping changes on all workplaces.

Clearly the rhetoric doesn't match reality.

This cannot be what Congress intended when it adopted the National Labor Relations Act to promote the general welfare and the free flow of commerce.

It is simply unacceptable to allow the NLRB to judge whether a private academic institution has sufficient religious character.

protecting religious freedom--which is the first part of our First Amendment to the Constitution, and it is no accident that it is in that place--is probably the most important thing we could be doing in this Congress.

the NLRB has a reputation for advancing expensive, job destroying changes to federal labor policies.