Political Quotes

“It is with great pleasure today that I rise in support of strong bipartisan passage of the Butch Lewis Act and this rule. I thank Congresswoman Torres for yielding me this time and Chairman Richard Neal of the Ways and Means Committee for moving this legislation expeditiously. The Butch Lewis Act will provide the economic security this body ripped out from under millions of hardworking Americans in past Congresses. Across our country, 1.3 million workers--truck drivers, candymakers, coal miners--and retirees face serious and significant threats of cuts to their hard-earned multiemployer pension plans through no fault of their own. Several of these plans are large enough to take down the entire Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, threatening the security of another 10 million hardworking Americans. I have heard the message time and again from retirees in our district and across this Nation: They worked for decades to earn these pensions, and they cannot sustain massive cuts. Now, they are too old or their health too unstable to return to the workforce. The stress and anxiety are sapping their will, and some have even taken their own lives. The Butch Lewis Act will ensure they receive their much-needed and long-overdue pensions, again, which they earned.…”