Dennis Kucinich

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

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

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

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.

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?

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?

So, as a representative of the Chamber of Commerce, a board without a quorum that can't enforce workers' rights is somewhat ideal, isn't it?

Well, let me assert for the record that it is true.

It is good to be here with you.

Thank God for recess appointments and also for the NLRB, so that they can be up and running and functioning as a full body to protect the workers in this country.

We are a country of laws. And the function of the CFPB is to protect American consumers.

Thank God for recess appointments, that we were able to appoint Richard Cordray as the leader of the CFPB because it is the law.

The National Labor Relations Board...ensures protection of workplace rights for union and nonunion workers alike.

So is it your testimony that these lithium-ion batteries that are used in the Volt are much safer than gasoline-powered cars with internal combustion engines?

So then do you concur with other witnesses that lithium-ion poses no greater risk than gasoline vehicles for fire hazard and, like gasoline vehicles, those risks can be managed?

I felt, given the primacy of that American automotive industry to our strategic industrial base, including automotive, steel, aerospace, and shipping, that the prudent thing to do would be to make an attempt to rescue it.

I did not vote for the bailout of the banks because I didn't want the government to be involved in picking winners and losers.

To assert that the government was running GM would probably create a feeling that the government is either more competent than you think it is or that GM is less competent than you think it is.

There is no evidence of collusion between GM and the Department of Treasury that would suggest that the government is running GM.

So it's your intention as the CEO of General Motors to have the Volt lead the way toward, let's say, electric and hybrid electric vehicles revitalizing our auto manufacturing sector by providing products that consumers would find…

So it's your experience, then, that the manufacturing of the Volt will put America essentially on the map with respect to these electric vehicles; is that right?

And that in turn, I might add, has a lot to do with saving jobs in this economy.

I have sold a lot of cars in my lifetime, and the only time you put a SPIF on a car is when it won't move on its own.

If you are truly protecting our lives and protecting our best interests, if you are looking at all the costs involved, both health care and economic, then why so long?