"The building trades crafts have over 1,900 training centers around this country. They spend $1.3 billion a year, not government money, private money."
"If it was a K-12, it would be the largest school district."
"Why do you think we're in this position today, the ambush rule as they call it?"
"I'm going to bring to your attention the percentage of union workers over the course of the last quarter century."
"This creates a lot more opportunities, but this is just trying to create fairness."
"Five seconds less on your support bill, but, again, when we can work together, that's how our country will grow, not by creating the good guys and the bad guys or the union and the employer."
"Thank you, Chairman. And our thoughts go out for what happened today, a remarkably sad day."
"We as a country many years ago decided that people would have a voice in the workplace, that they would be able to join unions, have collective bargaining."
"I represent over 200,000 people 55 years old or older. They have worked hard to build careers, raise families, excel at their jobs."
"It is vital we protect employment opportunities for older Americans and perhaps more important now than ever before."
"Without this information, in many ways it would be impossible to see that."