Mark Pocan

I know everyone says it is a new day here in Congress. Sometimes I feel like it is Groundhog Day.

I hope they are hearing you, and I hope they are hearing us, because my concern is that if these are not addressed...

I have to admit that it stuck in my craw that someone was saying, 'go to this website.'

We want to know that various inputs are heard.

I do not think, like some, this is going to bring financial ruin for the entire population of the planet.

It takes us a long time to make those changes. So most of our standards are really dramatically out of date and workers are paying the price.

When one of them is killed, there is no investigation. Nothing happens.

The value of human life seemed so low in that case.

The maximum penalty for a serious violation is $7,000, and we always discount it for small employers and for history and good faith.

The fewer inspections we do, the more injuries are going to occur and the more costs are going to go up.

If I understand it, you have sufficient resources right now to inspect each jobsite once every 140 years on average.

I just want to again thank Representative Bishop for all your work on this--thank you very much--and Chairman Kline and Ranking Member Scott. This is, I think, a good example of how we can work together in a committee to make sure that…

People who want to go around the law are the problem.

I myself am a small-business owner, last 28 years.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 18, line 10, insert after ``any rule'' the following: ``(other than a special rule)''. Page 19, line…

I have had caregivers stop me in the grocery store crying because it is the first time in her adult life she has been able to have healthcare.

We would save about $400 million over the next two years in our State. Almost 85,000 people would have additional healthcare.

I am just wondering if you could very briefly just address how we can try to help those younger researchers as we move forward in NIH funding.

I look at my employees as my partners, not as a line on my budget.

Since 1973 productivity has gone up 74 percent. The hourly compensation for a typical worker in the same period has gone up 9 percent. The average CEO pay during that same period, 937 percent.

I am a good cook, but I am not, you know, this is not my bailiwick.

I just really appreciate the openness, again. I think, you know, every time you have come to this committee you have been one of the most open folks that I have dealt with in my two-1/2 years here.

I really appreciate the work that you and your Department are doing to ensure that Americans savings for retirement are able to receive investment advice that is in their best interest.

But if understand it right, local governments aren't under some of the same things that you are under and some of these other laws.

I guess my question is, are you looking for a legislative fix to all of these areas?