Trey Gowdy

The purpose of the National Labor Relations Act is to promote the full flow of commerce, to prescribe the legitimate rights of both employees and employers in their relations affecting commerce.

The political aspect, to me, is this administration is no longer content with merely class warfare or generational warfare.

I find this hearing to be bitterly disappointing.

I think we all agree we don't want our capital, our jobs, our companies fleeing the United States because our system is second-rate. Nor do we want to trade safety for expediency.

I think--and I hope I'm using your words--unpredictable, inconsistent, and opaque.

My colleague from South Carolina raises the second issue, doesn't he? It wasn't just the complaint against Boeing. It was also the threatened litigation over South Carolina having the unmitigated temerity to want to memorialize the right…

While my colleague was talking so eloquently in defense of freedom, not in defense of South Carolina, but in defense of freedom and the freedom to pursue the free market, something as fundamental as that, we have been joined by our…

What steps will you take to ensure that complaints received by the Bureau are legitimate ones and not merely post-contractual gripes against a company when the consumer decides they don't want to live with the terms?

Not only, Congressman, had I heard about that, but I read a quote attributed to the NLRB just this week where they were advising Boeing and its counsel not to litigate this in the media. Imagine the arrogance of telling a company not to…

To echo what both of my colleagues have already said, I would say this: Not only is there a tremendous natural climate and business climate in the State of South Carolina, but you will not find a group of people more appreciative for the…

We saw firsthand when the automotive manufacturing company, BMW, decided to come to the upstate of South Carolina. I tell my colleagues, it transformed the upstate of South Carolina. Every now and again, you have an opportunity to have a…

Last week, of course, we were in our respective districts, which means I was home in my beloved State of South Carolina. And while the bulk of that time was spent in the upstate, in Greenville, Spartanburg, and Union Counties, South…

Again I would like to thank the chairman of the full committee, the gentleman from California, for his leadership. It is instructive, it is informative, not to mention ironic, that there were opponents to the D.C. charter school system…

One of the reasons that public approval for our body is sometimes so historically low is we have a tendency to demagogue those with whom we disagree and we create false dichotomies. This bill is no more about the independence of the…

I would like to thank the distinguished chairman of Oversight for his graciousness and leadership. Mr. Speaker, we have found consensus. Sweet, elusive consensus. We found it. Not in a final committee vote; that would be too much to ask…

If you run into anyone else who has not met a senior citizen or someone they perceive to be old, let Congressman Wilson and I know so we can walk them to the United States Senate where they will meet lots of them.

Creating jobs is imperative for the U.S. to maintain its standing in the world.

The Fourth District has seen a distinctive shift in the economic drivers at play in our area--now boasting one of the largest concentrations of high-skilled manufacturing in the country.

The Fourth Congressional District has a depth and breadth of resources to not only be a statewide or regional leader but a national leader in economic development and job growth.

I was asked by the Subcommittee to speak about the innovative and strategic work that we have initiated to address important workforce-related issues.

I personally want to thank Representative Dr. Virginia Foxx for her willingness to hold this higher education subcommittee field hearing in the Fourth Congressional District of South Carolina.

the reality is, how do we pay attention to that and look for other sources of funding to offset some of that cost?

I also want to thank Congressman Wilson.

I-CAR is a solid model of how partnerships between institutions of higher education and the community they serve can spark tremendous job growth and economic development.

If I told you that we could craft legislation that funded all three sectors of the D.C. school system--public, private, and charter--to fund all three of them, would you then support the Opportunity Scholarship program?