Rob Andrews

I thank my friend, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, at this time, I'm pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to someone who has walked in the shoes of those collectively bargaining and organizing, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Johnson).

I yield myself 15 seconds. Mr. Speaker, what President George W. Bush did 171 times--the legal authority he relied on 171 times--is the legal authority relied on by President Obama, which is the subject of this discussion this morning. I…

I would advise my friend and the Speaker that we have no more speakers at this time. What I would propose, with the Speaker's discretion, is I'd like to speak for about 1 minute. Perhaps if your other speaker arrives, we could accommodate…

I yield myself 15 seconds. Mr. Speaker, President George W. Bush used the same legal authority to make appointments to the National Labor Relations Board that President Obama used here. There was not a word of challenge from the other side…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 219, noes 209, not voting 4, as follows: [Roll No. 101] AYES--219…

I'm pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Linda T. Sanchez), a Member who fought for these kind of rights before she got here as a litigator and has fought for them since.

This is a Friday across our country, and there are millions of Americans who are going to work under circumstances that exist because of the union movement and collective bargaining in the history of this country. If they work the 41st…

I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I know that there will be lots of back and forth about whose fault it was that we got into this position. It's everyone's fault. There are people on both sides of the aisle that made a bad…

I thank my friend for yielding. In the summer of 2011, as the country continued to see rising deficits, Members of the Congress knew that they had to do something about that in connection with the extension of what we call the debt…

please convey to the men and women you represent how proud we are of them and the great job that they do for our country every day.

I noticed that in the President's budget proposal that he does propose the replacement of sequestration. He also suggests that there still would be $150 billion in cuts in defense, not the $550 billion or so that we have otherwise.

If the Congress doesn't reach the kind of agreement that I just talked about and we have year two or the first full year of sequestration, which it would be, what kind of other changes would you have to make in the defense posture of the…

But why wouldn't it be lower if the number of troops is significantly lower?

So there will be time to transition into those----

I support the Van Hollen budget because it recognizes that reducing our deficit is important, and that fiscal restraint, spending cuts, more revenues in a balanced way, is the way to do that. But I also support it because it chooses…

Letter, dated March 18, 2013, from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)

A guest worker program is not a luxury. It is a basic business necessity critical to their survival.

I thank my friend for giving me the time. It is a vexing problem that at a time of high unemployment we have a lot of jobs unfilled in our country because we don't have sufficient training for our people to fill those jobs. This is not a…

I thank my friend for yielding. It is, and I think should be, the law in this country if you're able- bodied, you can't get welfare unless you work. That became the law in 1996. Last year, two Republican Governors approached the…

I am very hopeful and optimistic we will have comprehensive immigration reform this year. Our country needs it.

Do you think that there is a critical error--shortage of needed workers in the construction field in the United States today?

There is discussion of a proposal that would reduce Medicaid spending by about 18 percent under the next 10 years from $4.1 trillion projected down--well, the cut is $756 billion.

this is a very big deal.

we have two federal policies working at cross purposes.

What Congressman Andrews was essentially purporting is that we should measure risk looking backwards when we know what already happened.