Rob Andrews

I come from a State, New Jersey, which prides on being the medicine chest of the world, in our pharmaceutical industry. How can you have a cutting edge in pharmaceutical products if you lay off people from the FDA, the Food and Drug…

It still seems to me to be all windup and no pitch, that if you really believe that that regulation should be repealed, why don't you put a bill on the floor that repeals it and let's do something rather than just talk about it.

I think the better course of action would be for the Congress to enact the Secret Ballot Protection Act to avoid all of this litigation.

I think that the American people have sounded a clarion call for us to put aside our differences and work together.

As we meet this morning, there are 15 million Americans officially unemployed.

over 80 percent of its nearly 300 decisions since April 2010 were unanimous.

every worker and every employee in this country should have that right. We should never take that right away.

I think we have a right to do that. I think it is one of the most fundamental rights.

Congratulations on your election to the chairmanship of this subcommittee, and thank you for the gentile and open spirit.

I appreciate his courtesy. The gentleman just makes a very good point about the importance of hearings before legislation takes place. How many hearings have there been on the renewal of the Patriot Act?

I think we can have a very worthy debate about whether that rule is a good one or a bad one. Why aren't we having that debate? Why don't you just put on the floor a bill that says let's repeal that rule and have a debate? Why aren't we…

The American people are placing a 911 call to Washington that says this country needs help. It needs a real plan to produce real jobs for the American people. What they are getting from the majority once again is wasted words, wasted time…

Mr. Speaker, as we meet this afternoon, there are 15 million Americans who are unemployed, and for them, this is another day of searching the Web or the want ads to try to find a job they've been unable to find after months of diligent…

As we meet here this afternoon, there are 15 million Americans unemployed, and yet we are passing up yet another opportunity to work together to try to create jobs in our country. And what are we doing? We are passing a spending reduction…

Let's put these decisions in the local hands. Let's have data-driven evaluations that identify teachers as highly effective.

What would you think about the idea of freeing up Pell dollars to be used by these kind of students for early college courses?

Thank you for calling this hearing, which I think is very instructive in addressing very important problem.

I am thinking this morning about a girl who is in seventh grade who shows amazing potential in mathematics.

Might we suggest a way to fix that problem?

I thank the gentleman for yielding. All those who care for and think about the 15 million unemployed people in this country, on both sides of the aisle, want the Congress to work together to help small businesses and entrepreneurs create…

Reclaiming my time, that sounds awfully familiar. We were promised an open process, but it was a closed process on health care. We were promised an open process, but it was a closed process on this bill. That sounds to me like a promise we…

The question that I asked was: Will the bill that eventually gets here that has numbers in it have a 25 percent cut by going back to 2006 or a 22 percent cut by going back to 2008?

Reclaiming my time, I would ask what the bill that the leadership brings to the floor will ask for. Will it be a 25 percent cut that goes back to 2006 or a 22 percent cut that goes back to 2008?

We would like to move to working together on good legislation that will help create jobs in our country.

letter, dated January 26, 2011, from 250 economists in support of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010