Dennis Kucinich

Since I came to Congress, I've worked together with Congresswoman Kaptur in challenging these unfair trade agreements, and I am proud to yield 4 minutes to the gentlelady from Ohio for her presentation.

This will force workers seeking to assert their right to collectively bargain to wait months, even years.

H.R. 3094 would allow employers to water down any potential bargaining unit.

I strongly oppose H.R. 3094, 'The Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act.'

This is going to cost businesses more money. And in today's economic climate, the more cost to small businesses means less jobs.

I think it is better policy and should be the law of the land, as it was before Specialty Healthcare, that everybody needs to get a right to vote on whether there is a union in the workplace.

Because I believe that what the National Labor Relations Board has done is to ignore employees' rights in favor of union rights.

In Ohio, it is estimated that the higher fuel standards will create at least 23,000 new jobs.

The bottom line is that job creation benefits from the manufacturing of fuel-efficient vehicles and components will help reduce the massive unemployment rate in this country.

But in order to survive and remain competitive, truck drivers need trucks that get better gas mileage and cost less to operate.

I just want to say I think Mr. Anwyl is one of the most remarkable witnesses that this committee has ever had.

I think there are probably very few Members of Congress who have the kind of expertise that you do have in this area.

The way that you just put it--they don't kill jobs, they stop jobs from killing workers--that is the purpose of OSHA, correct?

So what you are saying is that these safety protections that are put in place by OSHA regulations actually end up saving money for everyone, and not to mention the fact that it is protecting the workers and, by reference, their families.

I think it is important that this subcommittee reflect on the purpose of OSHA, by definition safety and health in the workplace.

We see over and over and over again that OSHA regulations save lives.

You made a claim that want to see how you back it up.

Thank you, Mr. Kelly.

I don't want to belabor the point but I think it is important that the committee is apprised of this so that in our deliberations, we can consider this additional information.

This CBO report is cited in the very first footnote of Chairman Issa's staff report but the staff report omits the key passage from the CBO report that undercuts the entire argument that the stimulus failed.

The best interpretation is that the authors tried something that happened to give the results they wanted.

One of the key assertions in this report is that the stimulus somehow destroyed a million jobs.

The problem we are facing is growth is too slow.

The most recent figures paint a stark picture of the U.S. economy.

With an exercise like this, you always have to worry about the problem of cherry picking.