Im married to a former colonel out of the u. S. Army. I have a son thats going into the u. S. Army. I sit so we consider ourselves a mmit, military family. And im going to tell you, we cannot continue as the solution with everything to send our troops in to do business. There are other means in which. We have to do that. Rselves diplomatic means. We have to have actionable intelligence. We have to use the economics of the situation. So i believe, in particular the Bush Administration used the military far too much and to our detriment in many cases. And sometimes i wonder if the ma Obama Administration doesnt understand that. It feels compelled to understand the situation and doesnt understand that somehow weve got to extricate ourselves south of some of these situations. You mean compelled the use iy military as an option . Exactly. Any ca they may feel compelled. Again, ill be very honest. When he first came in, i said look, we cant continue this. We just cannot continue this. Its no
Different thing. And to say were killing the American Dream with this, the American Dream worked pretty good before 1984. Were not trying to kill the American Dream. Were trying to stir the American Dream. Thank you, senator franken. Senator roberts. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for holding this hearing. Thank you all for being here today. I want to point out 96 of the businesses in kansas are Small Businesses naps the answer in terms of Economic Development for our state. With those folks being our job creators we need to act with partners with our businesses and not against them. I think this new standard delivered by the National Labor Relations Board seems to stand in the way of opportunity and growth. Millions of franchisors, n subcontractors with temporary Staffing Firms will be harmed, in addition to those wishing to be employed by one of those industries. And ive heard from folks all around kb asking me what this means for their business. That means uncertainty. That mean
That seems wrong. I know my friend is looking at it and we will make sure it changes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. With a chance for take this opportunity to correct the bizarre claim made yesterday by donald trump about parts of london being no go for the metropolitan police . Will be point out to mr. Trump the artifact excellent relationships between the Muslim Community in london and the police . I think the honorable gentleman speaks everyone in this house. The metropolitan police to a brilliant job and, of course, the fantastic relations with british muslims, and british muslims have made a massive contribution to our country. Donald trumps conflict comments light in the face of the principles of the United States and it is one of the reasons why those of you principles approved such an inspiration to so many people over the last couple hundred years. I think the best way to defeat nonsense like this is to engage in robust democratic debate and make it very clear that his views are not
Pocket. This is for the walmarts, this is for the Koch Brothers that pay your salary and you should be ashamed of yourself. Lets finish. A couple of comment there is. The cost of productivity, hes disagreeing with your figures and the other caller mentioned this was another biggovernment program. Well, i would encourage the gentleman to take a look at the study we put out specifically for the fast Food Industry where labor is 25 to 30 of the costs. And why do people buy fast food . Because its inexpensive and fast. If it becomes more expensive theyll lose customers and raise costs higher. So analyze that and the fast Food Industry we found the price increase would be about 38 in the short term. In the long term what will happen is firms will install machines that automate these jobs. Youll see cashiers replaced with kiosks. Youll seema sheens like the alpha. Google it. Its been invited thats an automated hamburger that cooks 360 gourmet hamburgers an hour or custom grinds a meat patti.
Support. I want to give the congressman a chance to respond. The American People are ned concerned. I think when incidents like what happened in San Bernardino, americans are frightened and they like to their leaders for answers. Ane i think the initial response, my republican colleagues was to go after the refugee program. Thats the panacea, denyingun women and children and old men i and women fromng coming to the United States, who are looking for refuge. That really is not addressing the issue. Getg i think what democrats are focusing on and we had from the get go is a visa waiver program, which weve taken action on in a bipartisan way, a more he thoughtful way and i think also the issue of addressing the issue of access to weapons by terrorists. Weapo by keeping them from getting those weapons the terrorism watch list by a means as to who can purchase weapons. People i recognize the feelings there. The first reasonability of the president and congress is to protect the American Peo