Donald Norcross

That doesn't sound like to me somebody who wants to become an entrepreneur. It sounds like a company just trying to turf that off.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman for having this hearing and it certainly is long overdue to have some real conversations that lead to both the continuation of innovation but at a reasonable price.

This is the thank you we get for putting that research. I really appreciate that.

You find it somewhat distressing that we make the greatest investment and pay the greatest prices?

I can tell you the folks in my district, nothing twerks them up more as to find out their great country spent somewhere close to $40 billion a year in NIH funding.

I would like it if the other countries paid more of this than we currently do.

Those bad actors that you described, do they generally have good OSHA standards and teach their employees or themselves on how to be safe on the job?

First of all, I want to thank Chairman Neal and Chairman Scott for bringing this bill to the floor, and my colleague, Debbie Dingell, and Dr. Roe who sat on the supercommittee last time to address this. The Butch Lewis Act is a bill that…

Now you are asking yourself: Why? Well, what I heard is Americans are making it today. Absolutely right if you are that top 1 percent.

The gap between productivity of a typical worker's compensation, and that of their hourly compensation.

I thank Mr. Scott for making sure that we finally, after 11 years, will have a vote to raise the minimum wage. This is America. You play by the rules, you work hard, you are supposed to be able to make it, but that is not the way it is…

I thank the chairman for yielding and certainly for the work that we have all done, particularly under his leadership, to bring this to the floor. Mr. Chair, this bill continues that long tradition of transparent and bipartisan work by the…

Together, working together in a cooperative relationship, we really can get this done.

It is about balance. It is about fairness.

OSHA has saved thousands of lives.

if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.

On June 18, 2019, I was unavoidably detained during the vote on the Lesko Amendment number 78 to H.R. 2740. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 324.

I understand firsthand how it works on both ends.

Isn't it ironic that we are hearing about corruption and we are being challenged by members of Congress talking about this?

I know my colleagues want to ask some questions, I just before I turn it over, so I want to look at the Block 2, the Chinook as an example.

I think the bill is going to drop next week.

We cannot penalize the healthy plans.

And I think the key thing there is we both have the common end state, of making sure--and it is not today's soldiers, that future soldiers have what they need to fight and win on a future battlefield.

Let me try to wrap this up. We had a conversation at Picatinny, EMP hardening, as the new systems develop, you spoke cyber and reviewing it every step of the way.

We better understand it--I get much better response when you dig deeper into these issues.