"The more assistance you can provide, sort of from the executive on, that would really be helpful, so that we can have more of the rural areas."
"Part of the problem that we still need to look at is rural hospitals. Like too many hospitals in rural America are closing their OB/GYN or cutting their hours."
"We are so proud of it, because in New Mexico, we have some of the lowest unemployment in history."
"In many ways, it sounds to me like when you are looking at the independent contractor issue, it is about who are you going to stand with, the workers or the corporations."
"In some sense, the Department of Labor is there to serve as backstop, because individual workers who might be stiffed for their overtime, who might be placed in an independent contractor position, the..."
"Yes or no, do you believe in separation of powers and that the Department of Labor does not pass laws and instead only implements rules that are consistent with the laws Congress passed?"
"What we are talking about here is the United States Department of Labor."
"I find that so often in this Subcommittee, in this room, we hear testimony that is so powerful."
"There were 300 salmon available for an entire tribe visualizes in many ways kind of the tears and the pain of the injustices that I think we all acknowledge that have occurred."
"I am also very pleased that, in the recent bipartisan budget default agreements that were made, that we did save $1.3 billion that needed to go to the Indian Health Service."
"But legislation that addresses lands, like the Wounded Knee legislation, for example, I think it is important..."
"Thank you so much, Madam Chair, and thank you for the testimony this morning."