host: we are talking with harold meyerson about his piece in the recent "american prospect". e will go to larry first, here in bc. an independent. caller: good morning. harold, just two questions. first, what world use the technology -- what role do you see for technology and the return of the labor movement? and second, i think it it was w.e.b. dubois, who said the rise of black people. guest: sure. technology is obviously a factor in eliminating a number of jobs. factories today employ fewer people to do the work that used to take more people. it's not just manufacturing. even in construction you will see things that they used to have to put together on a worksite now comes prefabricated. it's severally a factor in reducing employment. it creates jobs but it also destroys jobs. it creates a real conundrum for workers and for the country as well. did the south need to go elsewhere? well, a lot of what happened before the civil war was efforts by the south to suggest we could annex cuba. we should take some of mexico. it was looking at expanding its territory, partly because t

harold meyerson, thank you for your time. host: live coverage of the house begins now. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon mr. blumenauer, for five minutes. mr. blumenauer: congress is side stepping the transportation funding issue for the 45th time for the short-term extension, this one until the end of october. no nation has become great building its infrastructure three months, eight months 10 months at a time. this is a symbol of the failure of congress to deal meaningfully with a need to rebuild and renew america. our country is falling apart when we're falling behind. the united states had the finest infrastructure in the world. well those days have long since passed. by any objective measure, we're now down about 25th in the world. and we continue to follow further. this damage has consequences for americans every single day. the average damage to a car is over