I am sure they would be mortified to know that some of the employees of their company in other countries working for American soldiers have the possibility of being in indentured servitude.

I am deeply disturbed that we don't seem to be seized with a mission here, and until and unless we are, we are never going to solve the problem.

It is not okay to turn a blind eye to this practice. It is not okay to treat it as a bureaucratic requirement that we can check off a box because people have been trained or made more aware.

We have a zero tolerance policy. We have 19 laws, executive orders, and DOD memos making it very clear we frown on this practice.

But we are in this system that protects itself. Not the victims.

The laws are all in place, the policies are all in place. We have zero tolerance. And what that system has produced is zero reporting.

Human trafficking is unacceptable under any circumstances. War does not justify it; the mission doesn't justify it.

We cannot and will not turn a blind eye to this practice.

I think maybe you were out of the room when I entered into the record a list of coal-fired power plants right now that would in fact fully meet the standard.

A court told you you had to.

Why did it take 21 years, then, to implement the law passed in 1990, signed into law by a Republican President?

I don't get to represent them, but our first witness does. You may recall his concern for poor communities bearing this brunt.

The proposition here is that, should this regulation go into effect, it would have devastating effects both on sources of electricity and on jobs.

Many of the rate increases he's referring to occurred subsequent to the reregulation legislation passed by the General Assembly of Virginia.

Frankly, when a State seeks to preempt Federal law and to argue on its own that that law is, in advance, unconstitutional, is 'nullification' by any other sense of the word.

the previous administration tried doing what the chairman suggested: Why not just settle for a lower level? And a court of law said 'not good enough'

this notion that the hobnail-booted government is going to destroy industry and consumers and cut off the source of electricity in the United States is a false premise

About a third of the air pollution in this region is attributed to those migrating pollution sources.

It's a shame that the committee majority shows so little interest in legislation that might promote technological innovation and improve management of Federal information technology.

I have got four coal-fired power plants that are fully compliant today.

I am proud to be an original sponsor of this important bipartisan legislation, which will remove a sizable impediment to job creation in the private sector. Repealing this burdensome 3-percent withholding regulation will offer…

There are 14 million Americans out of work. They need jobs. This economy needs jobs. Unfortunately, jobs have not been a focus for the House Republican leadership thus far. While private sector job growth has dwindled, House Republicans…

We face a tough circumstance in that we are withdrawing from Iraq.

I support the administration's decision to pause security assistance to Islamabad until Pakistan shows real progress in combating terrorist groups.

This behavior must stop.