i want to acknowledge and thank the teamsters for being here today. i had numerous conversations with the teamsters before and after and regularly over time i understand that it is a challenging issue for the union. i also know the teamsters believe in public health as well and there are many many healthy products at the teamsters members bring to our stores and our city for our residents. i want to thank the other representative of labors from ufcw and aft who were here as well and i want to thank you for continuing the discussion in the labor community and beyond. i also wanted to just reiterate supervisor mar's thank you to our staff because this has just been a terrific joint effort among various offices. which you don't always see that happening but a really coequal collaboration and i really want to thank jeff in my office, peter from supervisor mar's office and supervisor cohen's office. with that, mr. chairman i make a motion to forward the soda tax to the full board to the supervisors with a positive recommendation. >> thank you very much. i

enter into the record letters, including from the airline pilots association, a letter from the teamsters, a letter for airlines for america that represents the entire airline industry and a coalition which has included in it flight attendants, machinists and other. a broad spectrum of support on business and labor that supports h.r. 4156. i ask unanimous consent to put those letters into the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. shuster: h.r. 4156, the transparent airfares act is a commonsense, bipartisan bill that provides airfare transpair

i'm here on behalf of teamsters. we oppose this tax. we feel it's going to affect our lives. i started this industry when i was 18. i'm 32 now. i have a 24 -hour job, i have health care, teamster pension in the green zone and now an 18-year-old that isn't cut out for college. i wasn't cut out for college. that's why i too k this job. these are good paying jobs for us. what's going to happen to us if this passes it's not just a soda tax. there is more than soedz being taxed. we are labeled as bad people which i feel us as workers are being attacked for this.das being taxed. we are labeled as bad people which i feel us as workers are being attacked for this. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is mitchell parker and i'm a parent. and in district 1 and i work a few blocks away from the public housing. i'm here representing the second district pta. we unanimously endorse this measure or this initiative, the legislation in february. i'm also here representing the parents of political action committee and we are supported this initiative back in the fall. i think we can agree tha

and the teamsters union has agreed to ship other future donations that come into san jo jose's guadalupe's church. the church said they can't stand idly by without doing something. >> i take it really personal. i love my community. and those faces are the faces of many children running around here, that could be happening to them as well. >> reporter: again, these donation bins will stay here because the teamsters in the next few days will pick up these supplies, travel across the bay area into central california, and then down to san diego to deliver what's been donated. live in san jose, damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. >>> not everyone is thrilled. i'm jodi hernandez. a live report coming up. >>> the afternoon commute is on here at the san francisco cal train station. there's a certain type of rider saying they're being denied rides. we'll tell you who they are, and why, coming up in a live report. >>> good afternoon, i'm meteorologist jeff ranieri. tracking more lightning across california. we'll let you know what that means in the full forecast, all the latest on the fog rolling in

our veterans pay for that with their blood but the union workers who built the buildings and the teamsters who brought things from one coast to another and a the workers and the i.r.a. workers who build the buildings and the skyscrapers. we are proud workers. we look for is to go to work to get our paychecks and benefits. neil: let them do their thing but if we want to get more members we cannot use -- mentioned a you can. are you copasetic with that? >> i am proud to say i of a union worker i am proud of with what we have done here in boston under our leadership. i will be all right at all have a problem because i've not bashing people going house to house i into busy going to work and earning a paycheck and tuesday and behind old glory "spreading the sheet" is better than his colleague. >> remember the days when everybody knew does jean paul look for the union label? but at that backlash. neil: what would they say now? ♪ [laughter] >> it was the collapse of the auto companies with the of bailouts because people view that as a bailout of the union workers and will be a backlash toward the

i'm here on behalf of teamsters. we oppose this tax. we feel it's going to affect our lives. i started this industry when i was 18. i'm 32 now. i

under seigenthaler the paper was fearless and hard-hitting whether uncovering corruption in the teamster's union, uncovering the klu klux klan or fighting segregation. earth part of the kennedy's inner circle taking time off to work in washington. on the campaign trail his bond with the family would survive decades and assassinations. while running his paper seigenthaler did not just hire al gore as a reporter, he changed his life, calling gore with the tip that longstanding congressman was retiring seigenthaler's advice went right to the point. for what it's worth, he told gore, i think you ought to run. then there was the fight against injustice on the front lines of the civil rights movement. in 1961 seigenthaler was in birmingham, alabama, when a mob savagely attacked by freedom writers. trying to protect the girls black and white, he was kicked and knocked out with a lead pipe. i was out for 25 minutes, he said, i never felt the blow. but his life was shaped by what he felt, what he did and how did he it. when he was a young reporter seigenthaler saved the life of a suicidal man about

under seigenthaler the paper was fearless and hard hitting whether uncovering corruption in the teamsterion, uncovering the klu klux klan or fighting segregation, he had a love more news and politics. he was part of the kennedy inner circle taking time off from journalism to work in washington and on the campaign trail. his bond with the family would survive decades and assassinations. and while running his paper seigenthaler didn't just hire al gore as a reporter, he changed his life, calling gore with a tip that a long-standing congressman was retiring, seigenthaler's advise went right to the point. for what it's worth, he told gore, i think you ought to run. then there was the fight against injustice on the front lines of the civil rights movement. in 1961 seigenthaler was in birmingham, alabama, when a mob savagely attacked a busload of freedom writers. trying to protect a group of girls, black and white, seigenthaler was kicked, and knocked out when he was hit in the head with a lead pipe. i was out for 25 minutes, seigenthaler said, never felt the plow. blow. but his life was touch

. >> carpenter's teamsters and letter carriers are planning a protest today during a meeting of the pennsylvania convention center board. they say they are unjustly locked out of convention center opportunities. >> a delta four rocket launch expected to go off this evening from cape canaveral. launch scrubbed because of bad weather yesterday. it is caring satellites to outer space. >>> well first came the rain, and the hail, and then a deadly tornado struck a crowded campground in virginia. and this morning, we're now learning more about the new jersey couple killed in this storm. >>> also, ahead, a new case of chicken gunya, report in the our area, details in the health watch. >>> and, today, it is danny's birthday, the boy with an inoperable brain tumor who asked for just one thing for his birthday, birthday cards, lots of them. well, his wish has certainly been granted, wait until you see how many people from all over the world came through for that little boy. that's coming up. >>> tornado strikes this campground, in virginia, destroying tailors, and also, leaving a path of debris everywhere

you used to help with the clinton administration with the teamster union strike. in fact, you've been quoted as being a veteran of washington battles. would you agree with that? >> i've been here a long time. >> so you know the process, right? >> i'm not sure which process you're referring to. >> the bureaucratic inside the beltway politics process, you know about these recordkeeping and aspect of that, as well? >> i'm not a recordkeeping expert. certainly i -- >> but you're an attorney. you have to know when there's a problem and you don't have record or there is a problem with records, you know to report it, right? >> i know that if you discover that records have been lost and they're not recoverable, it needs to be reported, yes. >> let's go back through this again. the accidental removal, defacing, alteration, or destruction of records in the custody. so it's not just loss, it's potential problems with it. so in your tenure over at the irs, there was nos inferences, miss o'connor, that there was some sequencing problems or some problems with the e-mails out of

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enter into the record letters, including from the airline pilots association, a letter from the teamsters, a letter for airlines for america that represents the entire airline industry and a coalition which has included in it flight attendants, machinists and other. a broad spectrum of support on business and labor that supports h.r. 4156. i ask unanimous consent to put those letters into the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. shuster: h.r. 4156, the transparent airfares act is a commonsense, bipartisan bill that provides airfare transpair en-- transparency to the flying public. in 2012, the department of trps t in place a rule to require -- ines -- airline prices require airlines and travel agents to bury government taxes and fees in the fare. he rule states that it's not unfair to show the beas fare as long as the fees are clearly exposed in the solicitation. that will allow airlines and travel agents to display the cost in a transparent way, in order to allow customers to see the base airfare and government taxes and fees. right now, airlines and travel agencies ar