part of the majority's agenda will focus on weakening private-sector unions, which only make up 7 percent of the workforce.

I want to thank God we have the $15-an-hour minimum wage coming into New York next year.

this is the 25th hearing on the National Labor Relations Board since the Republicans took control of Congress in 2011.

many of these fast food franchises keep their workers under the minimum wage, and by doing so, these workers fall under the poverty levels.

Further, rolling back this regulation directly targets inner-city public schools and shows, at best, indifference to our Nation's most vulnerable students. It will leave students-- specifically, low-income minority students and…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.J. Res. 58, which would gut States' teacher preparedness programs. This rollback is just one of many attempts by Republicans to dismantle the…

I stand here today in strong opposition to H.J. Res. 57. Not only is the rollback of these substantive measures incredibly detrimental, but the process by which my Republican colleagues are facilitating their actions is, quite simply…

I would not be able to own my business without the Affordable Care Act.

I would like to thank my colleague and ranking member of the Education and the Workforce Committee, Mr. Scott, for yielding. I stand here in opposition to this resolution, which looks to undo rules that provide safety and fairness in the…

I thank the gentleman from Texas. Madam Speaker, back in 1987, then-President Ronald Reagan issued one of his most famous speeches--``tear down this wall''--as he addressed then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to insist that he open the…

Espaillat, he minced no words. He really was accusing Charlie Rangel, basically the 84-year-old congressman, the long-term democratic congressman from that district of becoming in recent years an embarrassment to fellow Democrats.

He has said flat-out that the congressman has been ineffective since that censure.