This important legislation addresses two harsh realities: an intolerably high percentage of the farm workers who plant and harvest our produce are undocumented - and they are the most poorly paid and poorly treated workers in the United States.

Since we are on the front lines and have undocumented workers, it (legislation) will point the way for businesses to come here. They will not have to worry about a potential illegal workforce. They will have a legal workforce.

I will promote legislation to improve working conditions, wages and benefits for our workers and to provide incentives needed for growth and competition in the small business and manufacturing companies.

We are short somewhere between 290,000 and 350,000 IT workers, but no one knows for sure. It looks like it's both a shortage of people and a mismatch of skills in the marketplace that produce vacancies. But it doesn't matter what the cause is if you can't fill jobs that support income and revenue for your company -- the effect is there.

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

I would know if there was. But we're on the horns of a dilemma here. I want a narrow fix -- to use Soyuz to bring people up and down. That's all.