Political Quotes

“My colleagues, let us call it the way it is. The Republican majority in this Congress has spent the better part of a year and a half assaulting the rights of workers in this country. I have served on the committee, I know what is happening. They steadfastly refused the minimum wage. We had to practically pry it out of them. OSHA, safety for workers in the workplace, they want to gut OSHA laws. Davis-Bacon to pay workers prevailing wage, they want to eliminate that, too. Mr. Speaker, they have slashed funding for the National Labor Relations Board which guarantees and safeguards workers' rights and protections. They want to bring back company unions so that the employers will control the unions, not the employees. The first thing they did when they received the majority, the Republicans removed the name 'labor' from the Committee on Education and Labor to punish supposedly punish the labor unions. It is now the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities and the word 'labor' has been purged from both the committee and subcommittee names. The campaign finance bill which went down yesterday had an antilabor provision in it. So make no mistake about it, this is just another assault on working men and women in America by the Republican majority.”