David Roe

This issue which, to me, is about individual religious liberty and freedom. That is a huge First Amendment right.

If gasoline prices were the same as they were in January of 2009 we would have $700 billion in every person's pocket in this country.

We could have energy independence in this country in less than 10 years, which I think is one of the most important issues we are dealing with in this country.

We passed over 30 jobs bills that are sitting over in the Senate. The Senate has not passed a budget in over 3 years.

I think that this is a classic case of Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

This hearing is an example of not doing that.

I think that is a basic thing that as a factory worker's son, as I was, I got a chance to go to a good college and get a great education.

I don't think we can be successful as a nation if we don't address that.

Young people graduate from college with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

An affordable college education is absolutely mandatory. And we are losing that.

I absolutely agree, Mr. Hunter, that our universities and colleges are a national treasure, no doubt about it.

I think the court did a pretty good job.

I think the First Amendment and religious freedom is even more important. And liberty is more important, I think, than a job.

It is becoming out of reach of even affluent families now.

It is likely that the National Labor Relations Board will render decisions in these three areas in the next few months.

These are significant questions. I don't mean to, in any way, minimize them.

What our employers, what our constituents, want us to do is to spend more time working together to find solutions.

As the chairman said, there are 23 million Americans looking for full-time work.

Without question, the NLRB's activist agenda is out-of-step with the needs and priorities of middle class Americans.

We have learned the NLRB is utterly determined to advance a culture of union favoritism, regardless of the costs imposed on workers and employers or the damage inflicted on its own credibility.

The federal court of appeals rightly ruled against the NLRB's attempt to dictate the dress code for Starbucks employees.

The courts have also thrown out the board's ambush election scheme, as well as its plan to force employers to promote unionization in their workplace.

Just last week, a federal judge stopped an NLRB effort to overturn the will of Arizona voters who moved to protect workers' rights to a secret-ballot union election.

The NLRB is utterly determined to advance a culture of union favoritism regardless of the costs imposed on workers and employers, or the damage inflicted on its own credibility.

If I have got 51 percent, I have got control.