Phil Roe

This is not a problem that--for which the solution will be painless, easy, or uncontroversial...

We have a real obligation to get this right because there are 10 million people out there and their families...

There is a higher purpose in life than politics. It is loving our children.

The secret ballot is obviously something that should be protected--the right of each individual employee to vote in the privacy of the voting booth.

You can do that. But it is also your right not to have a union, and you should be free of any intimidation from an employer or an--the union to make that decision.

I can't think of anything more precious than a secret ballot.

I want to apologize to the Seneca Nation for the abysmal treatment that the federal government has done.

The Secret Ballot Protection Act will end the assault on the secret ballot once and for all.

It seems so simple to say that hard work should be rewarded in this country.

I felt a moral responsibility to do that. So we do agree with we want to make sure we keep those promises.

I know what it is like as a family to be left out in the cold like that, and when you make a promise to people you ought to keep your promise.

Your written testimony stated that OFCCP's regulatory proposals would convert the agency's current regulatory scheme of 'guidance and recommendations' into one of 'highly prescriptive mandates.'

Your written testimony highlighted that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) underestimated the potential costs and burdens of each of its pending regulatory proposals.

We have a liability crisis in America.

We have a segment of our population that can't afford health insurance coverage.

46 percent of small business owners cited fear of government regulations.

We need a functioning NLRB, no question about it.

I think it is a very serious constitutional issue between the balance of powers.

At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin asked, 'What have you wrought?' He answered, 'Republic, if you can keep it.'

I see both employees and employers sitting here today trying to figure out how you do that and how you make a promise and you keep the promise.

If you like your current health plan, you will be able to keep it. Let me repeat that; if you like your plan, you will be able to keep it.

I believe that businesses--and all of you all have been involved in business--are much better suited to decide what health insurance that they need to purchase for their business than the federal government.

Health care decisions should be made by patients, their families and doctors. And it should not be decided by the federal government.

I can promise you, going over time, when you have got more people chasing fewer dollars, you are going to decrease access, increase costs and decrease quality.

Does anyone on the panel think that seeing a doctor is part of health care? A show of hands.