"The maximum penalty for a serious violation is $7,000, and we always discount it for small employers and for history and good faith."
"When one of them is killed, there is no investigation. Nothing happens."
"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."
"The value of human life seemed so low in that case."
"I myself am a small-business owner, last 28 years."
"People who want to go around the law are the problem."
"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."
"we would save about $400 million over the next two years in our State. Almost 85,000 people would have additional healthcare."
"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."
"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."