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

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…

It still seems to me to be all windup and no pitch, that if you really believe that that regulation should be repealed, why don't you put a bill on the floor that repeals it and let's do something rather than just talk about it.

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

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

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

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

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?