OSHA has still not developed any enforceable standards for employers to follow that can protect workers from the airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus.
Bobby Scott
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Bobby Scott is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, he has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and civil rights throughout his tenure in Congress. Scott has been an advocate for expanding access to affordable healthcare and has worked on legislation aimed at improving education and job training programs.
In mid-May, as workers continued to face risks of infection, illnesses, and death, the agency is still refusing to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard to protect workers from exposure to coronavirus.
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the HEROES Act. The bill confronts the unprecedented pandemic that we are facing by first directing significant funding to State and local governments. Without this…
I say to the majority leader that the hard work that we have done is, to a large extent, due to the hardworking staff who have been up late at night doing this work that usually takes months. It has just been in days that they have been…
The spread of COVID-19 will present increasingly severe challenges for students, workers, and families. Communities across the country are counting on this Congress to deliver a bold, immediate, and targeted response. The Families First…
I would remind the Republicans that under Democratic leadership in the House, we have PAYGO.
Please bring these compelling stories of individuals who deserve second chances to this administration's attention.
Congressman Bobby Scott and Maxine Waters who were champions in advocating for my release.
I challenge this administration to break President Obama's record with commutations.
On Monday morning, our Nation lost a truly brilliant mathematician and pioneer, Ms. Katherine Goble Johnson. While I knew Katherine and her family personally for many years, like so many Americans, I never fully appreciated her work until…
This idea, the formulation that you have heard from our colleagues, fundamentally flips that to say that the restaurant owner is being discriminated against...
If this administration cannot see the harm that they are causing not just to LGBTQ Americans...
These are Americans asking and begging to be treated the same as the next student at the desk...
But there is a difference between exercising religious beliefs and imposing them on others.
Under current law, which has been in effect since 1935, an employer may voluntarily recognize the union if a majority of employees have demonstrated support through signed cards or a petition to organize. If an employer decides not to…
This is the last step before we can pass the PRO Act. We know that union members make higher salaries, get better benefits, work in safer workplaces. Nonunion members benefit from the high salaries.
Can you advise how much time is remaining on each side? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia has 11\1/4\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.
How much time is remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia has 2 minutes remaining.
I once again urge my colleagues to support the legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.
Low-income workers are being better paid because of State minimum wage laws that most Republicans opposed. And jobs created in the 35 months of the Trump administration are fewer than the jobs created in the last 35 months of the Obama…
I have a couple of other speakers, but they are not here now, so we are prepared to close.
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I appreciate her previous remarks, but I still have concerns about this bill because it is another so-called tough-on-crime bill that fails to address the true causes of the opioid crisis and will…
The Federal Analogue Act allows prosecutors to prove that a substance is chemically similar to fentanyl and has the same psychoactive effects. The Federal Analogue Act protects due process rights and is an important check on…
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 943, the Never Again Education Act. With each passing year, there are fewer and fewer people who can provide firsthand accounts of the horrors of the Holocaust…
Today, I rise in support of this resolution and thank the gentlewoman from Nevada for her leadership. Mr. Speaker, this resolution conveys the congressional disapproval of the Department of Education's refusal to protect students and…





