| Nlrb Resolution Of Disapproval |
April 24, 2012 |
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Barbara Boxer, D-CA
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"The modest reforms proposed by the NLRB do not mandate timetables for elections to occur, as some of my colleagues will allege; rather, the new rules simply eliminate existing barriers that get in the way of providing employees and employers with access to an open and fair election process. As Catholic Healthcare West, which employs most of its 31,000 workers in my State of California, wrote during the public comment period: “[the] reforms proposed by the NLRB are not pro-union or pro-business, they are pro-modernization.”"
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| Legislation On Hold |
September 15, 2011 |
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Barbara Boxer, D-CA
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"Let me show you the picture of a water treatment plant near the border of Mexico in my State of California. It is old. I visited this treatment plant. It got hurt in an earthquake, and FEMA—the bill they are holding up—will pay to finish this water treatment plant, which has to be fixed before another earthquake hits us. And we know that is what is happening."
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| Make It In America |
September 7, 2011 |
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John Garamendi, D-CA
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"We need an infrastructure bank. We need to take money that we will borrow at about a 1 or 2 percent interest rate for a 10-year note, put that money into an infrastructure bank, let’s say it’s $20 billion, reach out to the pension funds—in my State of California, CalPERS and CalSTRS, the public pension funds—and say, Here, invest in this infrastructure bank so we can build projects in California, so that we can put in place the levees to protect us from floods, so we can put in place the communication systems, the fiberoptic cables, so that we can build the sanitation facilities, the water recycling facilities, the dams that we need for a growing population in a State that once again could be growing if we put in place the infrastructure; nothing modest but, rather, a bold program, a bold program to build America’s infrastructure, to rebuild the bridges, to rebuild those facilities that are crumbling as a result of years of inattention. Infrastructure, construction jobs, putting people to work."
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