Ron Wright

I mean, this is the two--the two points that I really want to drive home in this hearing. The first is that we didn't do enough to protect people in nursing homes who are disproportionately non-White.

I would love for Congress to revisit that piece of legislation and reform the bonus so it is more targeted to the people who truly need the help.

But what is really entertaining to me is to hear over and over again people on the other side saying that the United States is lagging behind.

Committee Democrats have once again titled this hearing in a way to deceive the general public.

It is disappointing that my Democrat colleagues have decided to schedule this hearing only hours after the GAO publicly released its report.

As we have heard today, there is bipartisan agreement that Department of Labor oversight of the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund has fallen short for decades during both Democrat and Republican administrations.

isn't it at least incongruous to be, you know, passing blame on the coal companies when you had a President of the United States that for 8 years launched a war on coal

I believe we can all work together with this Administration to support common sense, workable, and innovative approaches.

If you can't stand the smoke, get out of the kitchen.

They will use children--to cross that river and the children are sitting on the drugs on the rafts.

Any suggestion that anyone up here or any political party has a monopoly on caring for children is just ludicrous and insulting.

Let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace and you can have it in the next second--surrender.

I do think that the course that these countries are on is not sustainable, socially or politically.

The United States and the Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador--the Northern Triangle--are inextricably linked by geography and deep cultural roots.

nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

what his policies did do is help bring down the Soviet Union, which resulted in genuine arms control.

What his policies did do is help bring down the Soviet Union, which resulted in genuine arms control.

If I were a betting man, I would bet that none of you 2 years ago would have predicted that Donald Trump would set foot in North Korea, but he did.

The purpose of an arms control treaty is not to make us feel good; it is to actually control arms.

I am glad that we are discussing fundamental rights because, to me, the right to work is rather fundamental.

Texas, of course, is a right-to-work State. It is one of the fastest growing States, and people, workers, and companies, are literally flocking to Texas.

I think what is before us today does not expand freedom or opportunity. In fact, I think it is horribly oppressive on the States.

That is because we still have freedom and opportunity in Texas, partly because we are a right-to-work State.

The Constitution guarantees, again, free exercise of religion. If the Federal Government is restricting it, how can it be the free exercise?