Rob Andrews

We have never taken a vote on that proposal and I think we should.

I think it is a requirement that we keep our word. And I appreciate what you are doing for one of the most disadvantaged populations in our country, that is our Native Americans. It is shameful.

We are responsible for directly overseeing the effective and efficient performance of the Board.

The Congress is scheduled to adjourn next Friday for 6 weeks.

My reading of the bill is that it does not create that situation.

I think what we need to have the federal government in your case is to--excuse my French, but to butt out and to allow you to carry on your own business.

I mean, you spoke movingly about your devotion to secret ballot. Would you have a secret ballot in that circumstance?

I think right-to-work laws encourage economic growth.

I think what the American people want us to do is to work together to create the conditions where jobs can be created by entrepreneurs and employers in the country.

There is no rule, there is no decision, there is no statute that says that any business must or must not locate in any place in the United States.

Nothing could be a further mischaracterization of the Boeing case.

Would it surprise you to know that the median unemployment rate in right-to-work states is 7.8 percent and the unemployment rate--median rate in the non-right-to-work states is lower, is 7.5.

My father could not stand one of the Tennessee presidents, Andrew Jackson, because of his treatment of the Cherokee Nation.

This is a hearing that I think starts from the premise of a story that isn't true, or an era that doesn't exist.

Well, thank you, Ranking Member Kildee. This is very important to my own history.

Principals need to be held accountable for how their whole school does, and that means responsibility for all their teachers.

We believe that policies that prioritize the credentials of adults over the needs of students are fundamentally backwards.

If you had to take an educated guess, is the present level of U.S. aid sufficient to sustain economic development in Afghanistan?

I think that our friends on the other side would be wise to follow President Reagan's example in this time of national emergency.

Well, I am acting ranking member. Mr. Cooper has a bout with laryngitis. He has lost his voice, which is a tragedy of significant proportions for the Nation.

the absence of an indigenous Afghan economy that could support a regime caused the dependency upon the Soviet largesse.

I commend the chairman for framing this issue in a way that we can learn, in our oversight role, ways that we can successfully achieve that goal and minimize injury and the loss of life to our service members and to innocent people in…

I think that there is real reason for progress.

This is literally a matter of life and death for our country and for our service members as we go about what we hope will be an orderly and rational withdrawal from Afghanistan.

No one that I know is for an indefinite U.S. occupation of Afghanistan.