Rob Andrews

Under current law, when collective bargaining reaches an impasse, employers have a perverse incentive to bargain to impasse and then compel a union to acquiesce in conditions mandated by the employer. From a related point of view, it is…

The Sales Incentive Compensation Act does not change the law of impasse in any way. The bill does not create a new right or authority for an employer to implement unilaterally the exemption provided by the legislation in a circumstance…

I offer this amendment to conform the bill to a provision that was proposed by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Owens) in committee so that the rest of the bill can conform to that so that the reference would be to the employee's position…

After 30 years of partisanship and 30 years of red ink, I thought we learned something in 1997. When the parties work together, they can balance the budget, and we should all be proud that we did that in 1997. There is a proposal that…

I ask my friend from Arizona, the Congressional Budget Office projects surpluses of $223 billion over the 5 years we are talking about here tonight. Under the majority budget, how much of that is reserved for the Social Security surplus?

there is an issue here as to the interest rate that students pay when they consolidate their loans, when they consolidate their direct loans in this case. The question is whether or not the students should pay a blended rate, which is to…

the purpose of this second amendment is to build on that base by specifying two things. One is that I believe that loans under the FFEL program should also have the income-contingent loan feature without consolidation, as this bill would…

this Congress, working with President Clinton and Vice-President Gore and Secretary Riley and the Department of Education, I think has built a laudable record of achievement in higher education. The Hope Scholarship tax credits that were…

This bill is the second installment in a two-part process that began last year to make higher education more affordable for more Americans. Last year, as part of the historic balanced budget agreement, this Congress gave people a tax cut…

I believe that the right answer to this conundrum, as to whether it is too much or too little, is to turn to the marketplace and let the marketplace answer that question for us.

I rise to oppose this bill because of what it does to working people, what it does to working people and what it says to all people. To understand what is wrong with this bill, we have to walk in the shoes of someone who wants a job and…

I find it rather ironic that the party of Abraham Lincoln would be pursuing a piece of legislation that has such negative implications for people's individual liberty and autonomy. It is a concern that really has not been brought up yet…

This week, our constituents are going to have taxes taken out of their paycheck. And each week we go home for the weekend they ask us, ``Congressman, what did you spend my money on this week? If my colleagues are prepared to tell their…

This legislation which I strongly support has managed to perform the miracle of bringing all different kinds of people together. People who love to see the Government spend more money oppose this legislation because it would stop the…

Mr. Speaker, over the last number of years, we have all heard the voices of alarm that we are hearing again today. Those voices are wrong. As the gentleman from Delaware said earlier, this bill will not cut Social Security. It will not cut…

this week marks the 23d anniversary of Turkey's invasion of the peaceful, self-governing island of Cyprus. For 23 years, Turkey has tried to make the island its own. It has attempted to do this by installing 80,000 illegal colonists, by…

The issue raised by the amendment of the gentleman from New York [Mr. Owens], which I strongly support, is how much leverage does the janitor who cleans the building have over the person who owns the building and pays his or her paycheck…

I rise in support of his substitute. Mr. Chairman, it occurs to me that someone listening to this debate today might be awfully confused when they hear virtually everyone on our side say the bill before the House puts the whip in the hands…

Mr. Speaker, sometimes the measure of a legislative body is who it listens to. The majority this year listened to a certain elite group of citizens who said they wanted to renounce their citizenship in order to avoid paying taxes, and they…

today there are 40 million Americans with no health insurance. There are millions of Americans who will go to bed tonight with a knot in their stomach about whether they get a layoff notice tomorrow at their jobs. There are rivers that…

This is a good bill and I rise in support of it and the rule that supports it. It is a good bill because it works for a number of Americans. But we have some work left to do for a lot of other Americans. This bill says to someone who has…

Mr. Chairman I rise to oppose this legislation. I fully appreciate the demands of balancing family and work, as my colleague from North Carolina just mentioned. Tonight is my 3-year-old daughter's back to school night at her gymnastics…

I oppose the bill and I frankly oppose the rule because there are some unanswered questions about this legislation that we are rushing to judgment and ignoring. The first question is, How do we assure that it is truly voluntary for the man…

I want to concur in the comments of my friend and say this is really the Youth Job Protection Act. This is going to help a lot of young people get jobs in grocery stores and supermarkets and protect their health and safety at the same…

the truth hurts and the truth is that what the Speaker asserted in 1995, that Medicare should wither on the vine is still true in his opinion in 1996. The truth also is that this is a Congress that has reacted when people have opposed…