"PLAs promote worker safety and guarantee a well-trained, highly-skilled workforce."
"And just to be clear about your testimony here today, it is your testimony that your company, going back to 1901, has, in fact, used PLAs as an effective tool successfully, and you have found it to be..."
"And is it further your testimony, if I heard you correctly, independent of your own company, though your experience would mirror this, that there is actually compiled data empirically demonstrating th..."
"Certainly that was my experience. I mean, I literally had the experience of the Silver Line."
"I would ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the letter from the Association of Union Constructors and more than 1,700 members in support of project labor agreements."
"The solution isn't to abolish the agency."
"If we abolish it would that make it easier for criminal cartels to traffic firearms in this country?"
"if we did that it's your testimony--I don't want to put words in your mouth--that it would actually make Americans less safe"
"Look, our Constitution put in place a series of checks and balances, and we elect a President to faithfully execute the laws."
"that was Members of Congress working on that."
"it is not a deep state bureaucracy that thwarted, for example, the ill-advised plan to abolish your Agency and to fold it into GSA."
"Returning to the spoils system is a bad idea for America."