Well, I could understand the sympathy that you have; you represent the smaller developers very well, but my question is back home in Cleveland I have people who are looking at $4 or $5 a gallon for gas and are wondering why are these oil…

do you think that these industries should continue to be rewarded with tax breaks and other benefits?

I thank my friend. We are here as stewards of our Nation, and we must be here to care for the people of our Nation, to care for those who are working hard every day trying to survive, trying to pay their mortgages, trying to pay their car…

Has anybody in this Congress suggested that those who are getting a bailout should take a drug test? That those who have oil depletion allowances should take a drug test? That those who were the recipients of the Bush tax cuts in the top…

We have had 16 hearings on employees, and busting unions.

I think the record would show that there were in fact some unions who supported Ronald Reagan's candidacy.

We have to stop fighting battles that are 55 years old, and let's get contemporary.

I am tired of being hounded by mailings telling me how to vote and what initiatives to support.

this is about right to work for less.

Caring for my daughter is not a job that needs union intervention.

I don't understand what this attack is going on in this country, except it is about an effort, they call it right to work, it is about an effort to create right to work for less.

His assassination left a vacuum in American politics that still hasn't been filled.

But they have been a pretty integral part. There was a time when there were little kids working in factories throughout this country.

Terrible decision, probably the worst decision in my lifetime in the Supreme Court.

While I pledge to you in George Meany's memory that the voice of the American worker will once again be heeded in Washington, and that the climate of fear that he spoke of will no longer threaten workers and their families.

We can't be fighting battles that are 55 years old. We can't be doing that.

In every case, they are using lockouts as a bludgeon to drive down workers benefits and wages and to literally try to break unions.

I think this is the only way that we can have an effective stop against this growing practice of trying to lick workers out.

The need to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration is urgent. A failure to do so could result in the loss of thousands of jobs and compromise flight safety. This Congress should pass a clean reauthorization without compromising…

I want to thank the gentleman from Maine for his ever- present leadership on the issue of unemployment insurance and also for fighting for jobs for Americans, because we're really here looking at two problems. One is the problem of making…

If we cheapen this whole idea of just--you don't like someone, you ask them to resign.

I want you to know, Attorney General--I'm sorry I'm late to this hearing, but my wife and I were at the prayer breakfast this morning.

It is good to be here with you.

Now, Mr. Rivkin, isn't it true that President Bush at least made two recess appointments to the board, Mr. Cowen and Mr. Bartlett, without ever nominating either of them to the Senate at all; is that true?

But hasn't the Chamber filed a lawsuit against the NLRB for its rule requiring employers to post a notice explaining employees' rights to unionize?