there is a transportation union that is pretty powerful that deals with you. we need to hear from them. some of you are aspiring to be my ears, so it is good for you all to no that the deliberations that take place here, hopefully when you are the major you will do the right thing. -- some of you are aspiring to be mayors, so it is good for you all to know that the deliberations that take place here, hopefully when you are the mayor, you will do the right thing. i want to make good use of my time, so i can tell you exactly what people at home field. when i walked to see it -- streets of san francisco, they come up to me and say thank you. they say thank you because i put myself in their shoes. i really do not need to come here. i am retired. i could go spend a lot of time in the bahamas or what ever. but what i see when it comes to transportation, and that is linked with -- for example they are saying this and that in the newspaper, but they do not have a good transportation document. the cac must deliberate on that issue. thank you very much. supervisor campo

brother john samuelson in new york, they are hopefully going to change the face of those two transportation unions. john has been along with his take back our union team rebuilding that key local from the rubble of the 2005 strike which his members made a terrible price. their contract is up in january. and they are running already a very active contract campaign with a lot of attention to how to enlist the strap hangers, the users of the boston subway system as allies. i want to get back quickly to question the david reyes that we need to address, you know, political action. and it's, you know, an endless puzzle and problematic one for unions trying to find forms of independent political action that will put more pressure on the democrats from the left. you know, certainly we have to realize the limits of the kind of muddled bipartisanship that we've seen some unions pursue whether they have decided. it was the worst example. the way you are going to teach the democrats a lesson is by shoveling more money in the direction of the republicans. you know, it was in the disgrace in 2004, 2005, sciu ga

it seems like it's an ongoing struggle what what is the status of unionization within the transportation industry. within the f.a.a. the n n b provision which everybody keeps talking about first was not an extension so we can understand exactly why it was not in the extension it's in the f.a.a. reauthorization bill which is you're exactly right it's going to make it very hard to get that bill out with that provision it has no business being in the f.a.a. reauthorization go zero but at the end of the day the extension should have been clean should have been passed but we deployed a lot i mean secretary la hood there outstanding job of keeping the focus on the men and women we need to get back to where maybe i'm misunderstanding this that i my understanding was there was one piece of legislation that came out of the house that contained the the anti-union language we've been discussing and reauthorize the f.a.a. and continue the spending that's that went to the senate no we're not going to do that and my understanding is that today harry reid said ok we will do that just until next month s

unionize. we'll have transportation secretary ray lahood on "hardball" tomorrow night to talk about it. we'll be right back. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car is totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what's your policy? >>> welcome back to "hardball." republicans may have gotten their way in the debt ceiling fight, something they won in many ways, but is there any evidence that cutting spending is the way to revive this slagging economy? senator casey, i guess there's a battle that's over, and i'm just wondering who won. when you cut spending, usually that's a sign you cut jobs. is that your view? >> well, chris, i don't think there's any question, when i talked with people in pennsylvania, they want us to cut spending. we cut by a report amount in the 2011 budget, we will be cutting as a result of this recent agreement. i think the debate now will be when you propose budget cuts, what effect does it have on the econ

. >> even president obama's transportation secretary is giving in to the job killing anti-union provisionlling for a clean bill earlier this week. and today, during a conference call, transportation secretary ray lahood said we need the senate to pass the house bill before they go on their vacations to put 4,000 people back to work, and 70,000 construction workers. at this hour, the senate democrats and the president have not caved to the republican confrontation, and we will bring you up to date as soon as they do. >>> the coke brothers block the vote. malan mitchell will join me. >>> president obama met with labor leaders today and vowed to renew his focus on jobs. after a bruising battle just to raise the debt ceiling, can this congress ever reach an agreement on a real jobs bill. it's my number one goal. ♪ students like me, who take these ap math and science classes and have these opportunities, this is where the american dream lies. when i write that book, you know, i plan to dedicate it to my school. ♪ those hopes and dreams that you have, you know, they're within reach. and i'm liv

union issue is very interesting. there was an original transportation bill that the white house issued a veto threat on effects the abilityand rail employees to unionize. the smaller bill, the short-term bill that they passed in july does not do that. here is house majority leader eric cantor. >> well, you know, that disagreement is really under the underlying bill. this was the extension that that really is not a part of this discussion. the issue about organization for labor has to do with being fair to both sides. other aspects of the bill such as affecting some rural airports and today the house majority leader -- minority leader steny hoyer got fired up. take a listen. listen up. >> we need to act on this issue now. 75,000 americans demand it our country demands it and it is irresponsible to hold hostage these people and our country and the safety of our airways pending some petty political gain that might be reached. >> the president says he is expecting them to do something about this by the end of the week. we will see, shep. >> shepard: can they do it by phone? >> well, they can do it unanimous consent. and so if

the medical profession and oil and gas companies and transportation field and senior citizens and union for a fight. they have big bucks to fling around. in 2010, the chamber spent $132 million on lobbying. american medical association $22.5 million, aarp, $22 million, the pharmaceutical lobby pharma, $21.7 million, the american hospital association, $19.5 million and public sector unions, $14 million. government wash dog groups said special interests shouldn't, allowed to buy influence with super committee. that's the surest way to deadlock resulting in automatic cuts to defense in medicare. >> if they come out with the proposal what they think has been tainted by money or special interest, it's not only a proposal that won't fly, we will move ourselves into a position where across the board cuts will hurt both conservatives and liberals. >> another watch dog group sent a letter to the house and senate leadership, calling for members to have open meetings and disclose campaign contributions and contacts with any lobbyists. >> whatever the committee recommends, the minority won't have a

unionizing issues. >> we'll be talking to ray lahood, the transport secretary later on about that story.ue and that's how much it's costing and there are a whole lot of people out of work, including support staff. it's 4,000 people not getting paid. some of them are working even without getting paid. they're paying it out of their own pocket. good way to save, by the way. it's anybody's guess on what's going to happen with the markets today. >>> you may one day soon be able to buy lipitor without a prescription.

unionize. it was solved today and we'll hear from transportation secretary ray lahood. the "hardball" strategists are with us tonight. let me finish with the economic fear which is in the land. a big drop on wall street. maria bartiromo joins us from the new york stock exchange. thank you, maria. what happened? >> well, today we saw europe really set the tone, chris. you have a debt situation in europe that is spiraling downward. the peripheral countries are getting in involved whether italy will be able to pay its bill, same with portugal. a spiral going on in europe. that is one issue that set the tone. a new focus happened on the u.s. economy. remember, we're just coming off of a two-month stalemate where virtually, people aren't doing much of anything. whether it's companies, corporations or individuals. we were all worried about the debt, the deficit and we were watching what was happening in washington. the back and forth, and, in fact, it materialized in people sitting on their hands, unable to make long-term decisions on anything, and as a result that is impacti

union square business improvement district, property owners, and the businesses, i would like to thank mayor lee, supervisor david chiu, the city departments, the san francisco municipal transportation agency, and audi of america, and a special thank you to those who supported this trend for this project. when we embark on this new project, it reminded us of where we have been and where we are going in union square. 164 years ago, jasper overall, who has a street named after him one week away, was commissioned by the city to lay out a design for its streets and parks, including union square. the park's design was designed to be infighting, accessible, beautiful, and memorable. today, architect walter put has applied those same qualities beautifully to the powell street promenade with a contemporary landscape design with features and heard of, like solar technology and wi-fi. o'farrell may not have imagined at the time that 100,000 people would use this street every weekend, making it the busiest city corridor. now with this promenade, it will be one of the best places to enjoy the hustle and bustle of the city, out of its hustle and bustle by working with the city, audi, and union s

transportation projects. the committee held a hearing with the mayor of los angeles and representatives from unions and businesses. the current transportation bill expires at the end of september. this hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> the committee will come to order. this is a big day for us. before i begin my statement, i want to thank a host of organizations that have been transportation advocacy organizations. i know this is not complete, but i feel this belongs to you as well as all of us. the national conference of mayors, the american public transportation association, the american council of engineering companies the transportation builders the gravel and stone association, a host of the -- a host of organizations american traffic safety services association. the associated general contractors. the american trucking association. the association of metropolitan planning organizations. the american concrete pavement association. the portland cement association. the national auto dealers. t

both prostitutes, but 55-year-old corey white is back on the job as a state transportation worker in washington. up next, the uniont to see to believe. >>> and who did jackie kennedy blame for her husband's murder? is for the first time ever we will hear the former first lady discussing jfk's assassination in her own words. we've got the details on the bombshell tapes next. >> the kennedys in massachusetts. [ male announcer ] this...is the network -- a network of possibilities. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more amecans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... f greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's the at&t network... and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. ♪ [ country ] [ man ] ♪ gone, like my last paycheck ♪ gone, gone away ♪ gone, like my landlord's smile ♪ ♪ gone, gone away ♪ my baby's gone away with dedicated claims specialists... and around-the-clock service, travel

use their own funds to get people into unions to pay for their tools, to give them clothing and attire to get to the job. and they don't even have transportation sometimes. so there's a lot of small things that can happen to get them tools, tooled up, booted, suited, transportation to all the construction jobs that are in their neighborhood. thank you. chairman mirkarimi: thank you very much. next speaker, please. anybody who else would like to speak? i've run out of yellow cards. just stand in the aisle, one after the other. thank you. >> thank you so much for the opportunity to speak. i come here as a taxpayer and as a former emergency room worker who's worked quite a bit with exactly the kind of population we're talking about today. and i'm also -- because some of the conversation has been about the event last night in the bay view, i was witness to that event. i went to go hear chief the chief speak, and i went to hear what the community had to say. i was disappointed that it wasn't able to happen. but i do want to provide testimony that almost all of the people who were actually from the bayview really wanted to hear the chief speak. i th

one of the examples i talked about the denver union station project, which is a transportation livabilityproject that is all kinds of different element to it, and wound up drawing from four different pots at u.s. d.o.t. it was complicated and time-consuming, and in our vision of an infrastructure bank you could sort of encompass all those different elements, the applicant would have one point of contact and we could structure the best possible deal and hopefully in the process do a lot of streamlining and cut down on the time and money that takes for an applicant to successfully compete. >> otherwise you would run the risk of adding a new program and then add funding to the. >> in d.o.t. vision we would in overtime emerging into the infrastructure bank spectacle would be streamlining and making it easier for states and commuters out there that want to come to us and a plaque. >> very good. thank you very much. thank you, all of you. >> you have 20 seconds more. >> see, i was brief. i was brief. and i have another hearing to go to. >> okay. >> thank you. >> so let me ask -- thank you, sena

unions. >> let me tell you how ridiculous the rule is. i mean, i'm on the transportation committee. and the rule is they want to rule in place that says if you don't know up to vote for election, it counts as a no vote. what i would like for the americans not voting is that that counts as a no vote so we can get rid of some of these guys. i think this outoutrage what is being done to the faa. and this is a time it call, tweet and e-mail and everything else, your members of congress, and tell them to get themselves back here to washington, get back into session, pasz the faa bill, then good on vacation. >> what is on the creating jobs? let's look at a lot of the ideas put on the table about jobs? trade deals. extend federal highway program. create infrastructure bank. extend payroll tax break. fund job training for vets. green energy jobs et cetera. how hard is it going to be to deal with any of these matters and actually get americans back to work, congresswoman? >> well, i tell you. it is difficult because republicans have basically starved government and now the very things that w

. >> one of the examples i talked about was the denver union station project, a transportation livability project that has all kinds of different elements to it and it wound up drawing from four different pots at the department of transportation. you could encompass all those different elements. we could structure the best possible deal and hopefully in the process to a lot of streamlining and cut down on the time and money it takes for an applicant to successfully compete. >> otherwise, you run the risk of just putting in new programs. >> we would be merging some of our existing programs and to that infrastructure banks. the goal would be streamlining and making it easier for states and communities who want to come out there and apply. >> thank you very much. i will talk to you about the rail spur later. >> you have 20 seconds more. >> i was brief, chairman rockefeller. i have another hearing to get too. >> this has been an amazing hearing. it may not appear that way to you because we deal with these things all the time. we have not and i have dealt with wretched transportation problems

union is not something that the faa discusses. the faa has had sometimes labor problems with the transportation security folks, but they have resolved all of those things. you cannot have in an faa bill, you cannot take it up, a union contract with a private company. can't do it. doesn't belong in a bill. can't be in the bill. please understand that. we can talk about all kinds of things. talking about that, but will never come to an agreement on it but sadly it doesn't belong in a bill. then one further thing. why are they doing this? i think personally it's an extension of the sort of things that begin in wisconsin. the whole anti-worker type thing. i think they have fastened onto. surely they know this can't be in an faa reauthorization bill. but it's all they talk about. they send over something nonessential to their service, and then my counterpart in the house has no, no, no. , that's just being used as a leverage on rockefeller or whoever else to talk about national mediation board. well, we can't do that. and secondly, point out to you, friends, a fact. most of the big airlines are euthanized. no problem. one isn't. delta. d

but transportation secretary ray lahood will sign a waiver negating those cuts, effectively making it a clean bill. the controversial anti-unionre that has dominated the faa fight is part of a longer-term funding extension, and it does not factor into this short-term deal. senate commerce committee chairman jay rockefeller indicated the battle was far from over, releasing the following statement today. "it's clear the right wing of the gop wants to undo worker protections and may again block progress on the faa bill in september in order to get its way. thankly, for now, this deal allows the faa to restart, maintain workers' rights, and ensures that rural airports can get the resources they need." the senate is expected to pass the bill by unanimous consent as early as tomorrow, allowing faa employees to get back to work by monday. with five days to go until the wisconsin recall elections, money is pouring in. ultimately, up to $30 million will have gone into the nine races. john nichols tells us where it's all coming from, next. >>> and he's working with the government to brainwash your kids. why spongebob squarepants is the

union rights are important and worth fighting for. joining us now is peter defazio of oregon, he's a long-time member of the house transportation meetingcongressman defazio, thanks so much for your time tonight, it's nice to have you here. >> thanks, rachel. >> president obama said today his expectation is this faa issue will be resolved by the end of the week. do you see that as possible? >> it could be resolved very quickly, just agree to a clean extension of the bill as has been done historically, move forward and put the 80-90,000 private sector workers back to work and continue these critical safety and security projects. the republicans are sacrificing not only private sector jobs, small business jobs, things that they supposedly worship, but also the safety and security of the american traveling public on the alter of extremist anti-labor legislation. you know, it's pretty funny. we checked out what would have happened, the rule they want to apply is in an organizing election if you don't vote it counts as a new york city that's what the republicans want. if we use that same rule in the house of representatives, if you had to ha

union is not something that the faa discusses. the faa has had sometimes labor problems with the transportation security folks and have resolved some up a union contract with the private company. you cannothe cannot do it. one will never come to an agreement on that. it does not belong in the bill. one further thing, why are they doing this? i think it is an extension of this thing began in wisconsin, the anti-worker thing. i think they have fastened onto it. surely they know this cannot be. but it is all they talk about. my counterpart in the house says, that is being used as leverage on rockefeller or whoever else, to talk about the aviation board. if we cannot do that, most of the big airlines are unionized. one is not. delta. tell tell wants to have this law changed so that works to their advantage. delta has had unions tried to organize. four times they have failed. i do not know what is in it for them. it is an anti-worker agendas. the rest of us are trying to get a complex faa bill passed if they did a clean bill of extension. people would be paid. it could proceed. we have to always done clean extensions. 20 as harry reid s

unionize. and so we don't know how it's going to end here. we've heard the president and transportation, very soon, guys. >> ray lahood will be joining us a little later on for update on this. thanks very much. >>> we want to talk to one of the furloughed faa workers. mark deplasco joins me from washington. thank you for being with us. you used to be an air traffic controller. now you manage a team that works on technical systems in the towers and radar facilities. first of all, were you surprised to get furloughed? because this budget authorization has come up time and again and it's just routinely been extended. >> absolutely shocked. again, you are right. we've had this happen before. we've gotten to the deadline and then it just -- we're back to work. so this was quite a shock. found out friday night that we were all furloughed and really didn't think it was going to last this long. i had no idea that it could last into september. >> you were an air traffic controller for 30 years. if anybody knows about safety, you do. there are ten people on your team right now. seven are still wo

transportation secretary ray lahood. if i could ask you about as bigger reauthorization bill. fawn johnson was just explain to our viewers, this is the big sticking point. union of language. do you see a way to compromise, and if so, how? >> there are a lot of issues that need to be resolved on the larger bill. it is not just a union issue. there are probably 10 other items that need to be resolved. certainly, the nmb, national media and reporters -- mediation board, is a sticking point. central air service is another one. that is a service that provides money to smaller airports to entice airlines to fly in and out of their airports. but there are other items, too. this could have been easily resolved. this is the most unfortunate situation i have seen in a long time in washington as a result of one or two people who were just really not willing to compromise. they wanted their way. as a result of them wanting their way, 70,000 construction workers are idle in construction projects around america at airports, 4000 faa employees are not receiving, and have not been receiving paychecks for more than 10 days. host: these one or two people include members of you

transportations from the labor perspective. we already have a 15.6% unemployment rate in the construction industry today. down from 23%. 1.3 million out of work, from the unionized sector, we've lost $30,000 members in the last two years. unfortunately, over half of those were construction laborers, working on heavy highway projects that had eight or more years in the service of the industry. as the unemployment rate goes up and this has been a sustained depression or recession in the construction industry, one that we really haven't witnessed in a real long time. and we're seeing an exodus to rebound. so the skills drain because of the prolonged recession in the construction industry is a real problem. >> well, i so appreciate your asking that question. i went to -- >> go ahead. >> our committee, our witnesses here, this is really unusual. we've got everybody covered here. >> we do. >> so, you know, i've expressed to my my appreciation for working on this input that we're getting. >> well, it is extraordinary. i went about a year ago to a job retraining center in the central valley and i -- one the programs was learning how to chef. i went around the room, and

transportation secretary ray lahood would use his authority to waive those cuts. the article says the current deal does not resolve underlying disagreements, in particular over the house gop's demand that the long-term reauthorization weakens unions. they expect the senate to accept a measure on the faa as early as tomorrow. j kearney briefed reporters about the partial faa shot down. this briefing had been before the announcement of a compromise. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the white house. this is your daily briefing. before questions, have a couple of announcements. last week, the president announced historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks that we drive which combined with steps already taken by this administration will save american families $1.7 trillion at the pump and reduce oil consumption by 12 billion barrels by 2025. building on that, next week the president will hold two events to highlight this administration's ongoing commitment to saving families and american businesses money at the pump, cutting our dependence on oil and creating cutting and jobs. tuesday, the president will travel to services in springfield, va. to annou

unions can put businesses out of business and really hurt them. >> thanks for your call. congressman latourette serves as the vice chair of the subcommittee on transportation. during his briefing a short time ago on the faa reauthorization. back to the phones and to webber in virginia, independent line. >> yes, sir. thank you. in life, you have to be careful who you vote for. what i'm trying to say is, all of the republicans that work for the faa, you are getting exactly what you deserve. they're mean-spirited republicans across the country, talking about god. i want to say told republicans that work for the faa, if you get laid off, you get exactly what you deserve. thank you. >> to the republican line. dale from georgia. >> hello. the faa. are you kidding me? there is a bill setting -- sitting on a desk being ignored. they blame congress for everything. ridiculous, this little deal they just did. sick of republicans and democrats walking up to the podium and saying, this is a bad deal. this is a bad deal. when will they say, you know what? we did something good for you. we are the ones living the good life. we finally did something good for you. when is

road and transportation builders, national stone, sand and gravel association, the afl-cio, a host of environmental organizations, the american bus association, ash joe, aaa international unionof operating engineers, american traffic safety services association american society of civil engineers, the associated general contractors, the american trucking association, association of metropolitan planning organizations, the american concrete pavement association, the associated equipment distributors, portland cement association the national ready mixed concrete association, national auto dealers, national asphalt pavement association, laborers international union of north america owner operator independent drivers association, american iron and steel institute, u.s. chamber of commerce, national association of development organizations, national association of truckstop operators, american highway users alliance and many more. i had to do that, because this day has been hard to reach and it is because of your advocacy working with all of us that we have gotten to this point. so now i will begin my five-minute statement. i want to thank so much my friend and colleague senator