i remember the first, walked into this building and samuel gompers did not have a good reputation in chinese-american communities. as 25 yearsntly ago, the afl-cio did not have the greatest position on immigration and i think there has been a tremendous change, not just a change in position, but a change in a leadership role in the fight. i just want to take this opportunity to thank them for inviting us here today for this conversation but also for all the work that unions are doing. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] on c-spanup today -- 3, the senate judiciary committee holds an oversight hearing of government surveillance programs at 9:00 a.m. eastern. at 3:00 p.m. eastern, you will see a u.s. capitol ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the august, 1963 march on washington. speakers will include democratic representative john lewis of georgia. moments, a look at today's headlines plus your calls and tweets live on "washington journal," the house is back in session at 10:00 for

in american history, the group that stopped all of it in the past, the china's exclusion act, samuel gompers, labor leader, thought this is a great idea. let's add the japanese to it. historically going up to the 1980's, every anti-immigrant impulse was driven by organized labor looking for a restriction -- >> the democrats. >> the modern democratic party. there has been movement all the way around. interestingly the business community did not get organized. 99 i was in a meeting, 12 people, 11 top trade associations in the country i was there as mr. taxpayer meeting with jim nicholson. sort of a checkup. what's important to you this year? 1999. they went around the room and cut the capital gains tax, take the trial lawyers put them in a plastic bag, throw them in the river. everybody was in one of those two places. then he finished, thank you very much. got up and left. and the last couple moments of the colombo tv shows, the guy from the chamber said there's this other thing. what is it? we have never worked on it. what is it? we don't -- what is it? we are running out of workers we need i