"Thank you. I want to start out by saying we live in the greatest country in the world."
"Your single focus is to make sure that workers are treated fairly, get the benefits that they deserve and that they have earned."
"Let us remember who we are here for, and why we are working that way."
"the idea that our plans that are covered by your Committee, or your administration, talks about--you have to, you must, by law, treat physical and mental equally."
"If you do get caught, you just have to pay what you originally had to pay, so there is no loss, there is no incentive to do the right thing here, when the American worker takes a hit."
"We need to have, at EBSA, the enforcement tools in order to be able to investigate and enforce when we have bad actors and folks who are not complying with the rules."
"This is about helping ordinary Americans, the ones who want to work their lives, play by the rules, and have a little nest egg at the end."
"The fact of the matter is, there is still a lot of people out there in systems that are going to be helped by the SFA, are they not?"
"Why would they still be a problem with us literally 4 years after we really started to look at that problem?"
"So what are we doing to try to get that labor, is the point I am trying to make."
"How are we recruiting that next generation? You are saying there is money there, and I understand that."
"Our industrial base for submarines, very focused on that."