I voted against it, too. And in retrospect, it was the right vote, because, among other things, it allowed employers to discriminate against old workers by shifting to cash-balance pension plans that, in fact, could result in cuts in…

I think in front of us we have somebody who has the makings to be a great Secretary of Labor.

We recognize the central challenges that we are facing.

Today, if an employee is engaged in a union-organizing campaign, that employee has a one-in-five chance of getting fired.

I think we have the opportunity here to vote for somebody who will be one of the great Secretaries of Labor.

Only 8 percent have them and 60 percent want a union.

we are going to break them up

If an institution is too big to fail, then an institution is too big to exist.

I hope you give serious thought and build into your analysis the savings as well as the expenditures.

We have put as taxpayers $10 billion to bail him out, and we have no say about whether or not he should stay on the job?

We are the only Nation in the industrialized world not to guarantee health care for all people.

these wealthiest 400 Americans now pay a lower tax rate, lower effective tax rate than most police officers, teachers, nurses, and people in the middle class.