Joe Morelle

Identifying at-risk youth and taking preventive measures to keep them engaged in school and our workforce is critical.

I want to thank you for holding yet another important hearing in this Committee...

I appreciate that, particularly the comments about the pre-apprentice, which I am a big supporter of.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 47, after line 18, insert the following: (b) Study on Effects of Funding Cuts.--Not later than 1 year…

Across our Nation, we face an epidemic. In schools, in churches, on our streets, Americans are dying from gun violence. We have a moral responsibility to do everything in our power to prevent more people from suffering the loss of a loved…

Strengthening Social Security is obviously an imperative here.

A modest increase in the Social Security tax for those individuals earning $400,000 or more would actually make it not only solvent, but sustainable.

Yet fewer dollars are going into Social Security than are being paid out, and the program is in danger of being insolvent.

A promise made, in my view, should always be a promise kept.

I am encouraged by our friend and colleague, Representative Larson, who is taking meaningful steps to safeguard access to Social Security.

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Thank you for your lifetime of efforts on behalf of America's working families.

Obviously a law failing to meet its stated goal needs to be changed and updated, the purpose of our conversation here.

Over the past 4 decades there has been a concerted effort to diminish the right of workers to organize and collectively bargain.

I think what it's going to do is leave people without coverage.

We have put our money where our values lie with the American worker.

I was disappointed... the decision to implement the rule, that weakened, in my view, the protections for workers.

I appreciate your consideration of my requests and look forward to working with you as the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee continues its work in the 116th Congress.

I think it goes to Congressman Morelle's question about Medicare and how it could lead in innovation in payment.

I think what is motivating us here is the fact that the system we have right now is deeply flawed and that we have 29 million Americans without insurance, over 40 million Americans underinsured.

We ought to be able to go on both tracks. I refuse to believe that we are incapable of doing great things.

I believe we can do great things here if we want to, right? We can walk and we can chew gum at the same time.

The goal here ought to be try to reduce the healthcare spend or at least bend the cost curve down

I think instead we welcome the opportunity to look to the future and begin the work of making our healthcare system...