Bob Casey

I have real concerns and real skepticism, which I know we have talked about.

I have no doubt about your intention. The problem is that we have heard some of this before...

So if we, in essence, help educate a workforce that the private sector needs in order to deal with the human capital requirements in the global economy and, at the same time, help more middle-class families have greater resources to help…

We don't want to, by making a change, adversely impact or put at risk more folks than have some kind of stress right now.

I won't support it, and I wanted to explore some of it with you in the time we have.

I've tried to be, as a strong supporter of the ACA, I've tried to examine and to support reasonable changes to the law.

Increasing the full-time hours to 40 hours a week is a regressive measure that would negatively impact minority Americans.

Eliminating the employer mandate would not reduce insurance coverage significantly.

We have not done for our kids is really a national, and I would say, bipartisan failure

Of the top 20 in the world, we are fifth from the worst. Our child poverty rate... 21.2 percent of children in the United States of America live in poverty.

I am grateful for her leadership on this issue and grateful for her sense of urgency because I think that is shared by all of us.

These standards are a way to manage that?

I would ask you both to infuse into your work the same sense of urgency that you have heard here and as articulated by Senator Boxer.

Ensure full protection of all emergency responders whether private sector, public sector or volunteers.

If you can, describe or outline some of the potential risks or potential costs of not expediting an update to those standards.

Madam Chair, thanks very much, and I first want to commend your work leading this Committee.

Well, I would hope that more of us would be--even as we are advocates for greater resources in the context of law enforcement...

I first want to commend your work leading this Committee and your efforts on an ongoing basis.

If their benefits are to be cut by 50 percent when their single provider dies, it is just inadequate to cover the costs of their care.

I really appreciate the panel's testimony. This is an issue, I think, that, no matter where you are from, no matter what part of the country, what party, what point of view, we all have a concern about it.

Let us give a bump-up to those, again, single women to prevent them from falling into poverty, which they are so close to even being on his Social Security retirement.

The role that the Board plays for the economy in promoting stable labor relations is absolutely critical.

I am always reminded, when we have hearings about the NLRB, about the foundational determinations that were made back in the 1930s.

The Board is the only recourse that they have to enforce their rights under the National Labor Relations Act.

It is the only entity that both sides can sometimes go to to make sure that they are heard.