Political Quotes

“I do applaud the chairman of this committee for making the cuts to the NLRB that he has made. They should be made. Obviously, the NLRB is running amuck. They must have too much time on their hands or too many resources. Did my colleague on the other side not hear the list of infractions? It would be absolutely fine if the NLRB focused on unfair labor practices and dealt with that. That is their mission, but that is not their focus. Their focus is expanding the force of big labor everywhere that they can and shutting out the little guy and removing the choice of average citizens of how they want to work and how they want to be represented, which is why they need to be hemmed in. That is just the simple fact of it, and if it takes it back to the point where they are only focusing on unfair labor practices, then I think we will have done our job well. This amendment actually strengthens the chairman's position in negotiations with the Senate when this bill comes to that negotiation. Mr. Chair, I urge all Members to vote in favor, and I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chair, I continue to oppose this amendment, but it is really very interesting. We are in the year 2023. We have a budget for this year, and maybe this is news to the gentleman, but in a bipartisan way where the NLRB had been flat funded for decades, we came together and increased the funding for the NLRB.…”