David Roe

This is not what the law anticipates or what the American people deserve.

Partisan politics created this crisis.

President Obama's recess appointment scheme was unprecedented.

The board has recently taken steps to skew the balance of power even further toward union leaders.

I do think that we absolutely do need a functioning National Labor Relations Board.

I think that there is a difference between using the power of that clause to assert your political point of view and paralyzing the executive branch.

I did not agree with the Constitution on abortion. I do not agree with the Constitution on health care.

I think some of these nominees might be defeated. And if they are, fine, you find another one.

I think it is an extremely important constitutional issue.

But even if you disagree with us, if you take a different view, the venue to litigate that view is in the statutory legislative process.

Let us not confuse a principled, constitutional difference with a good faith difference over public policy.

Some of us believe that collective bargaining helps to create and produce a strong middle class, and a strong middle class helps produce a strong American economy.

Many of us, frankly, disagreed with some of the decisions that those board members supported. But we never questioned the legitimacy of their appointment.

It is my hope the president will right this wrong so the board can continue to do its work in a more responsible manner.

Workers, employers and unions must now live with the consequences of these unfortunate events.

Senate Democrats failed to act, crisis emerged, and the president responded with an unconstitutional power grab.

We would be neglecting our duty if we simply looked the other way.

This could have been prevented if the president had worked with the Senate to seat qualified nominees.

We believe there are somewhere between 8,000 and 18,000 cases of hospitalized Legionnaires' Disease every year

Just one more question for you all and Dr. Hicks, is the CDC's recommendation zero tolerance?

I think we need some answers to this right here. It is important because this seems to be an outlier.

I would think though that, I mean we are pretty, when you look at an x-ray, and you have many times and I have too, of pneumonia, you are going to pretty aggressively try to diagnose because you have to know what antibiotic to treat it…

I have been in a medical center with 600 beds, and a VA hospital right next door to it that is a large VA, and I have not seen this problem at either one of those facilities in over 30 years.

I think you can say that yeah, the easy answer is a lot of things were tried but the answer is yes because it is prevented in a lot of other places.

Legionella pneumonia carries a five to 15, some as high as a 30 percent, mortality rate.