Dennis Kucinich

Of longer working hours and inadequate rest time. It shows adverse health and safety effects. This is from Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.

You know, the bottom line here is, who's running the business? It is not the drivers who are running the business.

So you were aware of the abuses going on, but you failed to address them in a timely manner?

My concern is that there may not be enough sympathy for people who are losing their homes.

I have to say that, of the witnesses, Mr. Haldeman was the only one who seemed to understand the concerns that the American people have about this issue that faces this committee today.

I fail to understand how in the world we are helping our economy by ignoring the fact that low-wage workers aren't being paid for work that they are doing.

We want to get America back to work, but guess what? America gets back to work, we ought to make sure people are paid.

I mean, think about this economy. You get poor people who aren't being paid for work they are doing.

I think it would be interesting for us to have a hearing just with the Department of Defense on this issue

Can investors make money investing in green energy or not?

We don't want to tell them that they are not going to have access to a weatherization program.

If Federal dollars are being spent, we expect the workmanship to be good.

We want to do everything we can to lower their energy costs.

You are not concluding, based on that, that all weatherization programs don't work; is that right?

We must be willing to make investments going forward.

The market sometimes will go for the short-term gain, using whatever resources are there, to max them out immediately for maximum profit, without any necessary concern about the society at large and about the future potential.

America cannot rely on coal, which is a nonsustainable form of energy, one that is damaging to our environment, for our long-term energy needs.

Energy efficiency can serve as a force multiplier, increasing the range and endurance of forces in the field.

I think government does have a role to play here, and a very important role.

America inevitably is going to have to go in a direction of green.

I have long been an advocate of plussing up the NASA budget for the purposes of looking at areas of developing green microtechnologies where you could theoretically--now, it is theoretical--create millions of new jobs involved in the…

The run-up to this meeting, and generally to the critical analysis of the administration's inability to be able to bring forward a massive greenworks program, should not in any way deter us from moving forward with an effort on the part of…

Is it your responsibility to protect the people of Virginia from air pollution-related illnesses that could cause premature death?

Isn't part of your responsibility to protect the residents of Virginia and not put them at greater risk for illness or even premature death due to air pollution?

17,000 lives a year are on the line with respect to these regulations.