national eco hero award, national science foundation award, and even a speaking engagement at the american union speaking event, but these only touch the surface of the many risks associated with the plastic field. we cannot expect the children of san francisco to fend for themselves when it comes to protecting their long-term future health. what positive adult role models are protecting them? why does this panel continue to green stamp every risky project bob fischer asked for? luckito facilitate investigative searches, we answer thing in today's minutes, the key words, children's health hazards from a mission playground, a carcinogen, many love playing field, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, fisher construction, pisces inc., think toxicity, still ginzberg, carbon black, market buelle, catcher can then patrick by a latthyolates, dioxin, -- commissioner buell: you have gone past or time. how long is your list? 3 minutes. >> 2 more seconds. >> that is ok. i am used to being interrupted. thank you. >> anyone else that would like to comment under general public comment? come on up. >> good aftern

view unions. 52% of americanspprove. that is one of the lowest that gallup has seen. what is your reaction? guest: i can assure you that is not the case in ohio. we have found that when union workers in the public sector were attacked from all highlands, we are finding unions and collective bargaining are used quite -- seen quite favorably by the general public. we have had opportunity to have a real conversation about the value of unions and collective bargaining. our public sector workers delivering essential public services make our communities work. host: our last best represents a group for right to work states. he made the argument that what you saw in ohio and wisconsin was not an effort by the governors to stop collective bargaining. instead, it was to curb union privileges. what is your reaction to that? guest: in ohio, said that built bsenate bill 56 to do both. -- senate bill 5 6 to do both. we need to get our private sector workers back on the job and back in the middle class. senate bill 5 -- people b

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the bitter debate over reform in american public schools, are unions part of the solution or part of the problem? there will be more than 19 million students in college this fall. how to make sure that pricey investment pays off. we begin with a passionate debate over public school reformp. with me steven bril, and he spent two years immersed in thousands of pages of documents and hours in the classroom in an interviews for his book "class warfare." take a look at this poll from 1976 asked if teachers unions, helped, hurt or made no difference in the quality of public school education, 38% said unions hurt it. fast forward to today. that number has grown to nearly 50%. steven bril, are you surprised? >> i'm not surprised. the battle has been worth it for the reformers and unions because i see a place where they can come at and where the politicians and the reformers can get the unions on their side which is the only way we're ever going to fix america's schools. >> you came at this as a journalist, with no dog in the fight. you started looking at the rubber rooms, where teachers were

he developed including the idea for the pan-american union and so on. >> i want to get more involvedat and of little on. let me ask you about the study here. there are few pieces with late -- with abraham lincoln. t know him? >> idea now that he knew him personally. >> he went to congress. he was elected to congress in 1892. he would have served in washington from 1863 -- lincoln was assassinated on april 14. there is a very poignant reminder of his connection with lincoln here at the house. that is that this card -- seven days before lincoln is assassinated he went to lincoln. we know from other instances that he would have had opportunities to meet and talk with lincoln. we also know that he was an admirer of lincoln that when he met -- he but the addition to the house for the study -- he wanted to build the very same wallpaper in his study that he had used in his cabinet room. >> that was the card but -- i believe it was a replica? it would have been necessary at the time. i do have a mean person this -- involved in the discussion. >> of was wondering what kind of other attacks he

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cantor is also a solid conservative with an american conservative union, acu rating of 92 out of 100.da rating, americans for democratic action, the premiere liberal rating system, is 5 out of 100. as congress recovers from its painful -- critical debt problem in the u.s., $14.3 trillion of debt. cantor has rejected all proposals that would taxes for the american people. >> question, who deserves more credit for holding the line against tax increases, john boehner or eric cantor? >> what impresses me about eric cantor is he is the republican guide to wassef and that's not the tea party base. it's two bases, the wall street and the tea party, the real conservatives. so cantor top fund-raiser, very close to wall street. and wall street was the guy saying cut a deal, cut a deal. i think cantor was going back to wall street saying, our deal is not going to involve raising taxes. i give them both credit for holding the line. >> you like cantor? >> there are things i don't like about cantor. he's too close to wall street. but i'm glad he helped -- >> legislative? you really need to be have

the number of american workers who are union members now as compared to numbers some 50 years ago. labor statistics. 12% of american workers were union workers in 2010 compared to nearly 27% back in 1953. >> but we're still strong in major states. you mentioned wisconsin and ohio. we had 100,000 people demonstrate in wisconsin. the labor movement, organized labor, and people of wisconsin just recalled two republican state senators. that's aç major accomplishment. we have over a million signatures to recall sb-5, a bill that took away collective bargains from public employees. really we're doing a heck of a job. the right wing introduced right to work in 14 states, and we were able to beat it back in every state. you know, so we are alive and well and fighting for the american worker. >> the concern, i guess, you're expressing is one of -- it's not that he could lose the union vote. it's whether the union vote will be sufficiently motivated to come out and play role? >> he's got to motivate us and that's his job. >> what do you want specifically? what specifically do you want to he

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an occupation from the previous century prominently featured in the name of one of our largest american unions and how last century it is to young people and how probably it is quite offputting to them that in 2011, that union is still project is a brotherhood rather than a brotherhood and a sisterhood when in fact represents 400,000 women workers, one of his sister sandy, who will hopefully be the next international president. and as we know, a number of unions but brotherhood in the name of grappled with this question of possibly coming up with a more gender neutral or gender equal name, one of them even at knowledge is the existence of the recent invention of electricity. the ibew. anyway, this was kind of a dope slap. if hamas made me a convert to a more modern, 21st century thinking kind of guy or friend, andy stern who is now at george turned, visiting professor. the salt labor representative as you may recall of the presidents cat food commission and a valuable new member of the board of directors of seagate technology appeared intracompany. i don't know if you notice brother mandy is e

. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez examines the state of labor unions on this day honoring americans at work. >> a lot of the challenges that workers and unions are facing come from a sustained attack on workers from business and from public policy. >> in a competitive marketplace there's very little power to raise workers' wages because the companies can't pass it on to the consumers. >> brown: veteran foreign correspondent edward girardet offers personal reflections and stories from his new book on three decades of war reporting in afghanistan. >> woodruff: and we close with powerful remembrances of 9/11, from the parents, teachers, and students at an elementary school just blocks from ground zero. >> the windows faceded the world trade center so i actually did see the first plane hit the first building. that's an image that is pretty much forever ingrained. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> oil companies have changed my country. >> oil companies can make a difference. >> we have the chance to build the econ

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this might be a good merger for unions, but for americans or -- or this particular union. erican work hes overall, it's terrible. and it's bads for mens generally. >> larry cohen, gigi -- >> every single union supports this merger, as does most environmental and civil rights groups. >> well, i respectfully disagree with you, larry. >> you're trying to say you have a consumer argument, but that's a single minded argumentp. don't say you love unions and then at every turn -- >> the justice department -- >> at every turn you go against union workers. at every turn. >> we will have more coverage of this obviously. >> every turn, gigi. >> obviously this affects millions of americans. thank you for joining us tonight. obviously a very hot issue. >>> tea partiers want nothing to do with mitt romney and sarah palin wants nothing to do with christine o'donnell. the latest drama in the tea party world is next. george pataki takes a page out of the giuliani playbook. he thinks he has a monopoly on september 11th. pataki said the obama administration doesn't understand 9/11? he's going

he he knows most americans are unhappy with the state of the union and are open to voting him out.o the president must do two things: he must retain his base and get them jazzed once again to vote for him. and he must demonize his opposition. so mr. obama's directly appealing to that base comprised of minority voters, union workers, and devoted liberals. the president is spending a lot of time courting them. >> so i don't know about you cbc, but the future rewards, those who press on with patience and official determination, i'm going to press on for jobs. i'm going to press on for equality. i'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now! i promise you i would work tirelessly to fix our broken immigration system and make the dream act a reality. we're fighting for good jobs with good wages. our economy is stronger when we've got broad base growth and broad based prosperity. that's what unions have always been about, shared prosperity. >> bill: if president obama's base does turn out in great numbers, he has a chance. if they do not, the republ

in many ways, it is creating what became the pan-american union -- the opportunity for people to meet diplomatically in both hemispheres. >> where would he have gotten these ideas? >> i think it goes back to the moderate doctrine. he was trying to revitalize the hemispheric unity and also dissent. something i find interesting is the notion that he did feel it extended as far west as hawaii. he had his eyes on why even though he is talking about the integrity. he also had an imperial stick strain. >> this is at the very end of his life. he does not even live long enough to see hawaii and next. he said to emplace by sending his old friend -- who was involved in the journal with back in the 1850's. he sends enhanced this special to format the revolution. >> one of -- envisioned a historic american base on its increasing wealth. you mentioned it had an american centric view. >> the very much -- he would have been very supportive of the consolidation of capital and the growth of american wealth and its expansion around the world. >> the interesting thing. we had a caller much earlier on an

. >> the washington monument grounds today, the american conservative union and senate republicans staged a media event to celebrate the first day of the reagan tax cut. things did not turn out quite as planned. henry king reports. >> it was a piece of pie. what could go wrong? a great gimmick, the world's largest apple pie and senator william roth, one of the sponsors of the tax cut bill. but what's this? bill wardlaw is standing in the world's largest apple pie. he's playing in it. he's being tackled in it. and then another one. this wasn't supposed to happen. there's the protesting members for community of creative nonviolence were taken away, having made a very sloppy point, masses were allowed to eat pie, footprints, body fears and all. chris: wow. those were the days, my friends, when politics was actually fun. when we come back, is it possible that rick perry, after his amateur performance this week, has made mitt romney ready for primetime? plus, scoops and predictions from these top reporters. chris: welcome back. republicans have a goal make once a decades chance at the white ho

the communication workers of american, the union representing at&t workers supports the deal saying it would allow nonunion newsed t mobile workers to join a union. >> the recall includes more than 200,000 hyundais they may have defeats that could prevent them from deploying property. you can contact your dealer for a free fix. you might not have known it but the bay area has a mine rescue team that undergoes regular training. that training took place today in the biggest new dig in the east bay. >> reporter: they're called bio pads and allow people to breathe longer than the half hour air tanks carried by firefighters. they train for rescue drills. >> it is medical grade oxygen and you're rebreathing your own air. >> they headed into the tunnel. >> one way in and one way out. so that's different than our normal where we have options. it's not an easy -- >> no, it's a long process. >> it dangerous rescue work because the environment is so unstable. workers have to go so far in. right now almost half a mile and there's a danger of leaking methane gas. the good news is how far into the h

union. >>> a jobless labor day for 14 million americans looking for work, and a million or so more who have given up the search. today, who or what will move the u.s. economy out of its stall. we begin with tea party patron, jim demint, and then mr. hoffa. and we have homeland security chairman, joe lieberman. and all things political with peter baker of the new york times and mike duffy with "time" magazine. i am candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." >>> the nation's capital and campaign trail will be a wash in jobs plans and presidential politics this year. the president's big unveil is on thursday, and republicans that want his job have ample opportunity to vie for it. dau mint holds twa in the tea party, and the tea party may hold considerable sway in the republican party. >>> senator, thank you so much for taking time. i wanted to start off talking about jobs. what you think has to be in a presidential jobs plan that you will hear about on thursday night and what cannot be in it. >> well, candy, i have spent the month of august visiting a lot of businesses, and manufacturing

put forward the idea of actually having canada and america join to create a global north american united states union as a way to extend in print take canada's debt and american debt create new north american debt so what we're seeing in the euro zone this is part of the new world order as some call it just create a global debt market put all your local debts and to put it out for one hundred years and return like it'll go away oh by the way impose austerity measures and getting deeper and deeper every single day along the way. and it is eighteen past the hour here in moscow welcome back you're watching our t.v. the sky above the russian town of beslan turned white today as hundreds of balloons were released in memory of the victims of the country's deadliest terror attack over three hundred thirty people died when a group of terrorists held around a thousand people hostage in a school for three days without food or water seven years ago are his medina coaching over reports from the republic of north the city. it's the third day of mourning here in the smallest search in town of bassline where hundre

forward the idea of actually having canada and america joining to create a global north american united states union as a way to extend and pretend take canners debt and american debt create new north american debt so what we're seeing in the euro zone this is part of the new world order as some call it just create a global debt market put all your local debts and to put it out for a hundred years and pretend like it will go away oh by the way impose austerity measures and getting deeper and deeper every single day along the way. people in the world are going to. the united states even our trash cans or food. you just have to go get it all of these perfectly good eggs because one was crap didn't even get over the other ones just threw him away from the cheese from the german oh. we really like to apply. the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill to make his mean one doesn't. quite. delicious breakfast for the families eggs and toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of. sixteen minutes past the hour this is our team night her

i don't see that happening. >> despite it all, only 11% of american labor is now represented by unionsand the american middle class worker, their wages plateaued decades ago. the wage gap is growing ever wider. of course critics blame unions for that charging their fat pensions and agreed force companies to send jobs overseas. so the talk back question today, do unions help or hurt america. facebook.com/americanmorning. i'll read your comments later this hour. >> can't wait to see that j coming up on this "american morning," the nuclear era under way in iran. that's right, nuclear era under way in iran. details of that ahead. >>> egypt's ousted president on trial. but the real action is taking place outside the courtroom. it's 21 minutes past the hour. you want to keep your loved ones safe and secure. give them the gift of financial security from new york life. we've been protecting families for over 166 years. new york life. the company you keep. [ male ] using clean american fuel is just a pipe dream. ♪ [ female announcer ] we're rolling away misperceptions about energy independence.

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he developed, including the idea of the pan-american union and so on. >> i want to get more involved on that later run. there are a few pieces connected that abraham lincoln. he was obviously a supporter of abraham lincoln. did he know him, that we know of? >> i do not know that he knew him personally. >> he went to congress in 1862. so he would have served in washington from 1863, and lincoln was assassinated on april 14, 1865. there is a very poignant reminder of this connection with lincoln here at the house. there is a little card, literally seven days before lincoln is assassinated, blaine went to lincoln to get permission to visit richmond, virginia, which had just fallen, the capital of the confederacy. we know that he would have had other opportunities to meet and talk with lincoln. so anso know that he was stil admirer of lincoln. -- of lincoln that when he built the addition to the house in 1872 for the study, he wanted to use the very same wallpaper in his study that lincoln had used in his cabinet room. >> we are showing that wallpaper to people as we speak on the screen.

joining me is the president of the american postal workers union.ave you with us tonight. >> good to be with you, ed. >> i need you to correct me on this if i'm wrong. doenlt be afraid of to correct me. ups and federalexpress has the postal service delivering 25% of their volume because the postal service will go places they won't go. is that true? >> that's correct. we by mandate have to go to every door in the united states six days a week. >> what happens if you're not in those small towns? what's ups and the private sector and federalexpress going to do then? >> i don't think they'll pick up the additional costs. i think if anything happens to the postal service, the more profitable areas of the country will be stripped away where someone can make billions of dollars and pay workers very few dollars with low benefits and make a lot of money. they're not going to do that in a rural area, so the federal government will be stuck delivering the mail in areas where there's no money to be made. it's total cost. >> you have 574,000 employees, 120,000 c

natasha is the death penalty policy director for the american civil liberties union of northern california. she previously worked as a deputy public defender in alameda county, and was a staff attorney with the california task force on criminal instructions. she is also working on the effort to abolish the death penalty in california and pursuing the goal of reforming capital sentencing procedure. before we start with the first question, we have a short video. i have been told that this is a video from the former warden of the mississippi prison. >> it is clear that the execution will take place and something happens. they may not come out and say that they did this, but they will tell the victim -- i am sorry. and then they say, i did this. and i leaned down to whisper in his ear, and i thought i could reach them because i wanted to make certain that he is at peace with themselves. i said it is not important for you to confess to this crime and is not important for anyone in this room. the only thing that is important is that you let your god know the truth. and he looked at me and he sai

let's look at the numbers of american workers who are union ç members now as compared to the number someording to the bureau of labor statistics, about 12% of american workers were union members in 2010 compared to nearly 27% back in 1953. >> we had a hundred thousand people demonstrate in wisconsin. the labor movement, organized labor and people of wisconsin recalled two wisconsin senators. that's major accomplishment. we have over a million signatures in ohio to recall sb 5 which is a bill that took away collective bargaining from republican employees. we are doing a heck of a job. the right wing introduced right to work in 14 states and we were able to beat it back in every state. we are alive and well and fate fighting for every worker. >> this is not whether the union vote will be sufficiently motivated to come out and play a role. >> that's his job. >> so what do you want to hear? what specifically do you want to hear? >> well, i want it hear his plan, obviously. i don't know what his plan is. but it's got to be something that involves getting this country moving again. it's got to

it's not just workers and companies, union and none union, that benefit from unions. american society benefits. it was organized labor that spirited the effort for a 40-hour workweek. it is not just rhetoric that unions brought you the weekend. unions have played a key role in extending security to millions of america's workplace consumer safety and environmental protections. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. broun, for five minutes. mr. broun: thank you, mr. speaker. legendary georgia businessman recently called the obama administration, quote, the single biggest impediment to job growth, unquote. that same man, mr. bernie marcus, also says that the business that he founded would have never succeeded if he was trying to start it today. home depot, his georgia-based company, currently has more than 2,200 stores all across the united states. and they support more than 300,000 american jobs. and they generated $68 billion in revenue. just last year. now imagine the impact on our country with companies

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