Why are we giving away our national sovereignty in the name of global trade? H.R. 408 is a giveaway of our national right to self-determination. What it does is, it repeals the U.S. ban on tuna caught by methods that kill dolphins and…

it is possible that many Americans for years and years have understood and even accepted those kinds of disparities as long as they had jobs. We all expect that the bosses and the people that head the corporations are going to make more…

The importance of us taking a stand on this cannot be repeated enough, because I remember when I was first starting my career, back in the city of Cleveland, and as all politicians do, I went through a crowd and shook hands, and I remember…

And that is something that certainly fast track must be challenged to do, but it does not do that. It does not provide for the kinds of worker and environmental protections which we need to see established so that we do not find our…

I remember a time when a label that said ``made in America'' was something you could not help but see no matter where you went, and now it is difficult when you shop for goods and check for a label to find things that are made in this…

In our follow up interviews with organizers in campaigns where plant closing threats occurred, we learned that specific unambiguous threats ranged from attaching shipping labels to equipment throughout the plant with a Mexican address, to…

In 1997 in January, the Economic Development Corporation of Tijuana was advertising that they would pay wages and benefits together of 91 cents an hour in maquiladora areas. Those are the kinds of jobs that are moving to Mexico from areas…

It goes to family values and democratic values which underpin our ability to celebrate family values.

when you think about the history of the growth, the economic growth in this country, which permitted the rise of the middle class, which permitted people to go from $10 to $15 to even $20 an hour, it is really somewhat of a miracle that…

One needs to be making a good wage to do that, but what is happening is that this transition in our economy, while it is wiping out good paying manufacturing jobs, it is creating jobs, according to the Department of Labor, among the top 20…

Skepticism is a healthy expression in a democracy, but skepticism should never permit us to stop reaching upward in establishing new frontiers. In the words of the poet, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp or what is a heaven for?" We…

I rise to address an issue in which the credibility of Congress is at stake and the credibility of a congressional committee is at stake. Our Government was set up, the Government of the United States was set up to provide for a separation…

The clean air debate cannot be reduced to a simple cost-benefit analysis that ignores the effect of pollution on human health and separates the economic from the human. We should not face the 21st century locked into the old paradigm that…

workers of the United States have a right to say show me the money, not in comp time but in overtime payment. H.R. 1 is not about flexibility or families or constructive reform of labor law. H.R. 1 is about undermining and ultimately…