Trey Gowdy: “I want to thank the gentlelady from North Carolina for her leadership on this issue and on so many other issues on the…”

“I want to thank the gentlelady from North Carolina for her leadership on this issue and on so many other issues on the Education and Workforce Committee. Mr. Speaker, when so many of our fellow citizens are hurting, when so many of our fellow citizens are looking for work, when so many of our fellow citizens are striving to meet their familial and societal obligations and when all they want is the most basic of all family values, which is a job--and as my friend Tim Scott, my friend and colleague from Charleston, so eloquently put it this morning--the NLRB thinks it's a joke, Mr. Speaker, a joke. They're making jokes about it. Airbus is not just another plane manufacturer; they're a direct competitor to Boeing. Virtually everyone is familiar with the most glaring example of NLRB overreach, which is the complaint they filed against Boeing. Not a single example of job loss has been cited. Not a single worker has lost a single benefit in the State of Washington. Nevertheless, the NLRB sued Boeing. They seek to have Boeing mothball the facility in north Charleston, displace 1,000 workers, and return the work to a union State. That is exhibit A in NLRB's activist agenda, and I regret to say this: As a former prosecutor who actually values impartiality and fairness, Mr. Speaker, they have become a sycophant of Big Labor. And while Boeing is exhibit A, it is by no means the only evidence of an activist, politically motivated agenda.…”