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and ray la hood said okay, i'm going to deal with these waivers myself, i have the ability to deal withural airports and i'm going to go over them one by one by one to see which gets funded and which doesn't. >> so they're taking the house legislation which included the stuff about this other funding, they're saying okay to that, but then administratively they're basically rolling over that and saying we're going top put that on the burner when we're back in town. >> although the transportation secretary hasn't exactly said what he's going to do. he said he's going to look at it oen a base by case basis. if i had to bet, what do you think is going to happen to that airport in nevada. >> i guess it's probably going to be okay. >> senator reid said today, the agreement doesn't resolve these key differences over this thing like collective bargaining out there. are we just headed towards another stalemate over this when we come back? >> yes, it's interesting. i didn't know this until i really started looking into it, which is the faa itself has not had a real authorization bill, which is a

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secretary ray la hood ts pressure on congress. >> we say to congress, you come back from your vacation, you're getting paid, and help us pay these american workers. this is not the way to treat the american worker, particularly when we have such high unemployment. we want to bring the unemployment numbers down, let's put 70,000 plus people back to work. >> the financial impact is already hitting home. >> 2-year-old daughter's birthday's coming up right now, and it's added a lot of stress. the question has come up from my wife, do we need to cancel her 2-year-old birthday party. it's embarrassing to me that this is the position congress has put me in. >> in chicago, president obama raised campaign cash and celebrated his birthday, sort of. >> it's true that i turn 50 tomorrow. which means that by the time i wake up, i'll have an e-mail from aarp. asking me to call president obama and tell him to protect medicare. >>> and chicago's mayor rahm emanuel, former white house chief of staff, has the president's back, going after mitt romney for attacking chicago and the obama jobs record. >> w

. >>> last night on "hardball with chris matthews," chris asked transportation secretary ray la hood exactly how an agreement was reached to bring an end to the partial faa shutdown. >> we had meetings at the white house every day. the president was intimately involved. he cared a lot about these unemployed construction workers and faa workers. he instructed me, and he instructed his staff -- stay on this every day until you get it solved, until these people get back to work. so the president and senator reid, senator rockefeller, senator kay bailey hutchison, senator max bachus stepped up. there is an agreement so these people can go back to work on monday or as soon as the president signs the bill. they can have their -- workers will go back to work. it really was more about some member of congress letting their own agendas and their own egos get in the way of hard-working people right smack dab in the middle of the construction season. this is not the time to be laying people off. chris, you've heard the speeches. so have i. jobs, jobs, jobs. people give a lot of good speeches. th

transportation secretary ray la hood went before reporters today begging members of congress to interruptummer recess. >> come back to washington, leave your vacations just for a couple hours. come back, congress. help -- help your friends and neighbors get back to work. >> congress is out until after labor day. house republicans are insisting that any bill to keep the faa running should also cut subsidies for 13 rural airport. they also want to roll back union rights for airline workers. and we will have more on this story on nbc bay area news at 6:00. >>> topping our health watch tonight, they're supposed to keep your child safe, but according to a recent study, more than half of children's car seats sold in the u.s. contain dangerous toxins. >> this always perks up for parents when you hear something like this. tests show that 60%, yes, 60% of this year's models contain harmful chemicals including bromine and chlorine. it can cause impaired learning, liver problems, and cancer. for a full list of the most safe and unsafe car seats, go to nbcbayarea.com and search for "car seat." >>> th

little republican vacation is so much for caring about deficit reduction transportation secretary ray la hood went on t.v. this morning to speak out against these antics. congress should pass a bill today and since seventy thousand construction workers back to work four thousand f.a.a. workers back to work let's get the f.a.a. running again this is not the way they run their investments they feel safest aviation system in the world we shouldn't be doing this if there is no we shouldn't be doing this this is nuts but this is politics this is what happens eric cantor and john boehner decide to do another hostage taking and a hostage they're holding the gun to this is anybody who flies an american president obama had this to say. other stalemate in congress right now involving our aviation industry which is stalled airport construction projects all around the country and put the jobs of tens of thousands of construction workers and others at risk. because of politics it's more than politics it's actually about the republican war and working people a war the republicans are so hell bent on ways t

airports and democratic districts something the secretary of transportation ray la hood assured democrats you can wave moving forward but the real holdup is the in the f.a.a. funding bill is about unions republican slipped a provision into the bill that makes it harder for federal air and rail workers to unionize knowing that the senate would have a difficult time passing it because of that provision this new deal reached today does nothing to strip out the anti language and union language from the funny bill so if this deal meet is another f.a.a. shutdown just around the corner when republicans come back to washington to continue their war on the unions here to offer his take is president of the national air traffic controllers association paul great to have you with us thanks for having me so thirty years ago yesterday ronald reagan declared war on working people in america after he had promised patco before the election that he would actually go along with their demands of the voted for him in the present a package it's not a lot of everybody in october. over one hundred eighty saying

they pay the taxes retroactively but instead of putting them in escrow as transportation secretary ray la hood called for their pocketing the money which is also understandable since they've been losing so much lately but even obama against the debt limit drama took the time to call on congress to resolve the issue before the summer recess mean so blunt as to refer to this as quote another washington inflicted wound on america now if only there were such a standoff over the i.r.s. is operating a throwing. as far as libya is concerned at least thirty two countries now including the united states obviously have decided that the rebels have already won and recognized the national transitional council as the legitimate government of libya meanwhile president obama is being sued for his illegal involvement in the conflict so with that offer on his way out it would seem the script here is coming to a close foreign supported rebels will build a new government which will probably become a new face for the same with corruption nato will declare a great victory they can use to justify their unnecessary

we're losing two hundred million dollars which is what ray la hood had to say about this the white house. members of congress could easily have put seventy four thousand construction workers and if the employees back to work but instead they went on vacation i'm asking congress to come back and do for the american people what the been talking about put seventy five thousand people back to work in good paying jobs that's what congress should do take a little detour from their own vacation come back to washington and pass a clean bill. so isn't this another hostage taking scenario yes there are cracks in this and it should pass but already passed a bill by the house that is the one the says that if you don't vote in a union election that's considered a no why don't we pass a bill that says listen if you don't vote in the federal election you're considered a democratic vote all that hasa kept in the unions though and. it's destroying unions that's the legislation is what i'm saying is that the reason that harry reid and jay rockefeller said that they're not going to support it is because of

so they're fighting over a number of issues here, they're all kind of wrapped uptogethe >> ray la hoodssman himself, saying congress, come on back and get this business done. how likely is it to happen that there will be some kind of congressional action? >> reporter: there could be congressional action, i spoke with a senate aid who said that talks are still going on. they're confident they can get this done in the next few days and this is what the president has called for and what ray la hood is calling for. they have a few options, they could pass the house bill they can have the senate and the house agree on some order of change to that bill but they have to do it by unanimous consent. they require agreements on the part of the leaders, people who have to come in and be on the floor to object. so that's one option. i'm told it's very, very rare in the house that this happens. they could wait until this whole recess is over and everyone's back in session, but if they do that, they're losing more than a billion dollars in tax revenues and you've got all these people who aren't colle

ray la hood is a former member of congress and be moaned the loss of bipartisanship.sn't lost the ability to get things done and the secretary is here in "the situation room." you must be happy about this. >> i am thrilled for the hardworking people in the middle of the construction season. they're going back to work monday. they want to earn a good wage, take care of their families and do construction jobs. i am very, very happy. >> walk us through the legislative process. the house for all practical purpose is not in session. the senators disappeared and fled washington. how did they pass legislation and the president signs it and get this done within the next 24-hours? >> harry reid deserves a lot of credit with the president and debt and deficit. he told me, take care of our employees and the construction workers and figure it out. get it done. >> how do they do it in terms of the legislative process? >> there is a decision that lets them come in which the senate will do tomorrow morning. they will ask for consent to pass the house bill and if nobody objects, that

thank you, secretary ray la hood. i'm beating your drum, sir. >> thank you, chris. >>> when we return, the biggest problem facing president obama. fear. no jobs. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. esurance instantly compares our car insurance rates with other top companies. with an esurance quote, you know you're getting a great deal. you can thank our tech team for that. sure, i'll let them know. bye-bye. aha! anything you want to share? with the tech team? oh, i'm dating that girl in accounting. seriously? yeah, we're pretty serious. [ female announcer ] know if you're getting a great deal. see for yourself at esurance. technology when you want it. people when you don't. >>> let me finish tonight with a reality check. the reality we're getting from wall street today is as clear as the closing bell. people are scared, scared enough to be pulling their money out, to be stacking up their dollars where they can see them and nobody can get the them. fear. that's the reality out there today. and the question before

. >> hey, shep, the answer to this apparently was in the hands of transportation secretary ray la hoodng who had the authority to grant waivers to some small airports that would have lost their subsidies under the bill. he exercised that waiver and what la, a deal, f.a.a. workers obviously pleased. >> make my mortgage this month. i'm very happy to make that that's a good thing to be able to pay your mortgage. i'm just like everybody else. i have three cars that don't work well. i couldn't have gone six weeks. >> senate majority leader harry reid issued a statement late today that read, quote: i am pleased to announce we have been able to broker a partisan compromise between the house and senate 74,000 transportation and construction workers back to work: that often repeated figure of 74,000 workers idoled was exaggeration all along says economist who crunched the numbers of that a third. 24 thundershowers. a lot of politicking going on in recent days. a lot of it probably unnecessary, shep. imagine that in washington. >> shepard: imagine that, doug mckelway in washington, d.c. tonight.

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transportation secretary ray la hood says recess time is over. >> come back to washington, pass the bill, let's get american workers back to work, let's put all the talk about creating jobs, all the talk about jobs is now the priority, let's make it a priority today. >> luke russert's on capitol hill. what are the chances the house and the senate get the faa funded during this august recess? >> reporter: i'm hearing it's stilpossible but not likely, contessa. the reason being is that both chambers are now out. it's not unprecedented to have one or both come back on a recess, but it's not likely. what could occur is a bit of parliamentary procedure. the democratic senate would have to take up the house republican bill or the house would have to take up the senate democratic bill and use unanimous consent. in order for that to occur, john boehner would have to sign off on the democrat bill or harry reid would have to sign off on the republican bill. i'm told the staffs between both the senate democrats and house republicans are still talking at this moment in an attempt to try and move som

face of the pressure that the white house is putting on congress is the transportation secretary, ray la hoode was at the top of the white house briefing yesterday and last hour, i was standing out here for about 20 minutes and i watched him do the cable rounds, he was on msnbc, he was on cnn earlier in the morning, he went over to fox, then he went over to bloomberg tv, this is the message the white house is really troying to hammer. one of these things -- it's the 70,000 people who are without work because of this, or 74,000 as we heard white house press secretary jay carney yesterday say. this is very interesting because actually the george mason university professor, stephen fuller whose study was used to come up with that figure said that the number is actually more like a third of that 70,000 number. the white house is saying it's about 4,000 faa workers furlowed and 70,000 construction workers who are not able to do airport construction projects, but fuller saying this is a simplification at best and an exaggeration at worst, but still tens of thousands of people not working this month