David Roe

To summarize, I certainly agree, this has been an important event today. I think that jobs are the single most important, but also looking after workers with transparency, sunshine and information.

I think it is important--and, Mr. Fox, I would like to meet with you later to discuss about how you feel like that the law can be changed, the 1959 law can be changed to improve it.

I have no problem with that whatsoever. I do not like to do it.

The Obama administration has weakened union financial reporting requirements to the detriment of union members.

The policies that are put in place in the United States government have--the union donations, the political candidates do have a major effect on the direction of policies in this government.

I do wish that we would emphasize the need to help in some way, shape, manner or form, bringing all the sources of power together in this country to create jobs.

You would think, that if there is a culture of union favoritism, that that resource number would have dropped. In fact, in 2010, we are spending $5.82 per covered worker in 2010 dollars.

In fact, the opposite is the case. The average number of indictments by the OLMS in the Bush years was 122. The average number of indictments in the Obama years has been 126.

Instead what we are doing is engaging in what I believe is a political exercise to highlight what the chairman referred to as a 'culture of union favoritism' at the OLMS.

And everywhere I go in my district and, frankly, around the country, what I am hearing is that those Americans and their neighbors want us to find a way to work together to create an environment in which entrepreneurs and small businesses…

Congress has a long-standing responsibility to shine a bright light on how the dues of union workers' are being spent.

Workers deserve to know how their hard-earned money is being spent.

Workers should be empowered with the knowledge of how their hard-earned dollars are being spent.

In fact, the opposite is true. In the years that the Bush Labor Department was running this operation, the average convictions were 113 per year. The average number of convictions in the Obama administration has been 125 convictions per…

We had a student in my office in Kingsport, Tennessee, not long ago from a public university with a $72,000 debt.

I had dinner this week at a restaurant here, and I will not say where it was, but I paid more for dinner than I did a quarter of college years ago.

When you have private schools now, private universities that are $40,000 or $50,000 a year, and let us say you spend $250,000, in Tennessee, and you start teaching school, is that gainful employment?

The gainful employment rule is about regulating, making sure the taxpayer's money is being used efficiently.

I am hopeful that this body will make it a priority to repeal the most objectionable provisions like the employer mandate.

If we did business the way the Congress that passed the health care bill did, we would already be out of business.

The steady rise in cost is a critical challenge facing our nation's health care system.

It is companies like Bowlmor Lanes and millions of others like us that serve as the engines of economic growth in the United States.

President Obama understood this responsibility when, as a candidate for the presidency, he outlined a plan he promised would 'reduce costs for families and businesses.'

We have 47 programs that overlap. And it is confusing.

I absolutely agree with you that worker rights have to be protected, but so do employer rights.