"significant improvements require a sense of urgency and strong leadership."
"when the penalty is stiffer for shooting a deer and taking it across the state line than it is for taking the life of somebody, there is something fundamentally wrong here."
"I can assure you that this panel will not forget your needs."
"It is bad enough that these veterans who fought so bravely for our freedom have lost their eyesight due to injuries that they received in battle, but to ignore their needs when they return home and mo..."
"I hope we hear better news about the program than what I heard last month and I want assurances that the witnesses who testified last month have now all been contacted by an FRC team and are now recei..."
"And I think we are going to do better."
"the experiences of these young men and women have highlighted the need for fundamental changes in care management and the disability system."
"If these companies are going to willfully continue to do this, then I think what we have to do is we have to have an agency that has teeth."
"Whoever altered that machinery is responsible for this young man dying. And not only should they pay a fine, ... they ought to go to jail, and they ought to go to jail for a long time."
"If, on the other hand, the primary objective of the greatly increased criminal penalties is to exact retribution from the few employers guilty of truly egregious conduct, then we should acknowledge th..."
"There is something wrong with the law, when an employer, who knowingly endangers his workers, commits a 17-year felony under the environmental laws, but doesn't even commit a crime under the law desig..."