about a year ago, supervisor avalos and i and a number of other hopeful departments and union leadership and community people gathered together at a playground to announce the beginning of an ordinance that we both worked very hard on. and we knew at that time that we were transitioning as a city to be less dependent upon just words of faith that we have been operating on for some number of years to real life transformation to see real faces like the people that are standing behind me, people whose lives are beginning to transform because they earned their way to a decent job on city projects. and we knew that the real secret is for us to transform ourselves as policymakers and program directors -- don't mind if i pause while these trains come in. that we wanted to have something to hold ourselves accountable to the goals that had been loftly crafted in this ordinance. so we went about the business to working together with the goals, with the trades, with the unions, with the training centers and with the departments about city-funded projects and to make sure that we could really have a

rhonda simmons, our partners in labor, especially the operating engineers local 3, the carpenters union number 22 and 261 for making this a great success. i look forward to how we can improve on this. i do support the local hire advisory committee. we need to make sure that we have the pipeline as full as it can be for local residents and making sure as well that women can also get higher levels of employment in the construction trades. that's one thing the reports emn trades. that is one thing the report looked at. we need to look good veterans as well, veterans who are in need. the challenge is still ahead. i look forward to rolling up my sleeves and a working with the administration to make that happen. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. as you heard, supervisor of loews and merely talk about the city build students -- supervisor avalos and mayor lee talking about the city build students. we're proud to work on our construction project. i now next want to bring up to the stage jason chan, a current city billed student. this class is going to graduate in june. -- a current city bu

they knew they could not match union numbers, so they experimented with new technology. here in hampton roads, as we know, they hoped that an armored warship could achieve that objective. after the stunning success of the virginia on the 8th of march, sinking the cumberland and the congress, inflicting the worst defeat on the united states navy in its history until december 7, 1941. on march 8, confederate authorities then agreed to build more, as many as they possibly could. they actually started a total of 52 of them, although the industrial bottleneck for them was the availability of iron, armor and particularly maritime engine plants which they simply couldn't build themselves and had trouble getting in through the blockade. a vicious circle. they did build some, however, and in january of 1863, two of them, the chicora and the palmer state, got past the charleston, to declare that the blockade had been lifted. though it was back in place again the next day. charleston authorities also tried to use, again playing the technology card, semi-submersible david boats, as

they knew they could not match union numbers. so they experimented with new technology. here in hampton roads, they hoped an armored warship could achieve that objective. after the stunning success of the virginia, on the 8th of march, sinking the cumberland and congress, inflicting the worst defeat on the united states navy in its history until december 7, 1941. on march 8th. confederate authorities then agreed to build more, as many as they possibly could. they actually started a total of 52 of them. although the industrial bottle nick for them is availability of iron armor and maritime engine plants which they simply could not build themselves and had trouble getting in through the blockade. vicious circle. they did build some, however. and in january, 1863, two of them chased off the un

the commander of the union fleet at island number ten charles davis who had replaced andrew hall foot, was reluctant to allow them to go and henry walk, the commander, volunteered and said he we can do it and he did. general john pope, who was the army commander there investing island number ten said he needed a second gun boat. davis was again reluctant but agreed to allow "uss pittsburgh." these are both city class ironclads built by george eads at the end of 1861 and early 1862 that captured ft. henry and held with capture of ft. donaldson and those gun boats made it possible for pope's army to trap the entire garrison at island number ten and capture them. so these tactics of running enemy fortifications which -- attacking and running them -- which went back to 1861, they were bearing a lot of fruit here on the river in 1862. >> dr. mcpherson, thinking about some of the examples that you provide in your great study, of the individual decisions made by people like david farragut, tennessee born, virginia -- well, not bred but with wed, why do you think that as many officers especia

union. a growing number of clergy if the so-called doomsday budget goes into effect. >> we stand here today representing faith leaders throughout the state of maryland, who demanded direct destruction of the doomsday budget before it destroys the state of maryland. >> fayed community leaders are the latest to urge a special session. they support increasing taxes on cigarettes by 70%. >> health-care issues, education issues, issues of public security. all of those things are of great concern for us. >> jack young is now shepherding a resolution in support of a special session. the doomsday scenario cuts $10 moving in grants out of the police department's budget. that is the baltimore city loses $60 million in state aid for schools. >> these decisions which the legislature failed to make trickle-down. very hard on our communities. >> house speaker michael bush met with his leadership team last friday. they support the compromise reached by budget conferees. senate president mike miller once the figure lower to 75,000. now is not the time. political brinksmanship is being played out in this st

found that there are over 3500 employees in this category that we represent with our union alone, so it is a bigger numberok at the other unions as well. that is a number that includes not only many, many different classifications, including city- wide classifications of all different types, as well as a registered nurses, including nurses in the nurse practitioner as a vacation, nurses in what is called the p103 or per diem classification to the problem is this, we recognize that there are occasions when it it is a bridge for any employer to use as- needed or temporary employees, when the work is a temporary or unanticipated. the need has to be filled. the problem with the city and county is that the city has evolved into a system. the use temporary employees to do permanent ongoing work. that is the problem that we have. that is a problem that is artificially created by the bureaucracy of the city. it is a problem that only the city can fix. we want to do our part to help fix that problem. but the city needs to step up and say that it is only upgrade for permanent employees to do permanent work of the p

unions. wisconsin -- it may be the number of households that are union households are declining as it is allthe country, but i think what is maybe misunderstood by the other side on this was how many people are not in unions who are professionals, business leaders teachers, and they know the reason they went to college, because their dad went into a gm plant or machine plant or into the harley davidson plant in milwaukee or kenosha, and so even though they may not be union members themselves, they know what got them to where they are in life. and that's a pretty deeply held feeling. so it's not just the number of families that have a union member in the household, you find out how many families are one generation removed and it's a high percentage. >> and i think the families see the declining wages and waning of union strength as parallel. and as we compete against countries that are not unionized and they pay a buck a day i think people recognize that unions are the final backstop. >> that's right. and i always believed, i had the veto, a number of billed passed to me by a republican legis

to a port and gain act stoesz a port with multiple credentials, possibly a credit card, a union card, any number of credentials. so the first thing about twik, it's the first time a common credential has been issued in a maritime environment. which means we can train to that credential. we developed many security features to put on that card. we did that in coordination with other agencies including the forensics document lab at ice so we did the best we could to make that card secure. it has a biometric on it. although the readers aren't in place yet, the coast guard does have portable readers they can use to dorandom checks as well as do the checks as far as the port security inspections and vessels security inspections each year. >> a section exempts mariners who do not need access to a security area obtain a twik. coast guard policy letter 1115, implements section 809 but still requires those seeking their first mariner credential to visit a twik enrollment center. essentially complete the twik enrollment process and pay the enrollment fee. i understand the exemption is estimated to apply to

pattern that we're seeing of a company's problems are being blamed on the unions this is a company that was put together with the number of unions at a lot of different plants and management to go around and try to organize in such a way that they could get coordinated plans on the different players and it's also a company the demographics of this country are not working so well for so it may have problems well beyond its union contracts one how has the role of the corporation changed since reagan. well you know actually discussed back later earlier than right in one thousand seventy one the new york times magazine great liberal newspaper that i used to work for granted the piece by milton friedman in which he argued that the only duty the corporate officer had was to the shareholders and sole duty was to them so you could work your whole life for the company a community could tax itself and undertake all sorts of things that benefit a particular company vendors can set up their entire factories to benefit a company but the only person who has any rights at all and for humans of us ronald reagan's you were shareholders

in response union major general benjamin butler, who is the commanding officer overseeing occupation of new orleans passed general order number 28 which basically said that any woman who defied union authority would be treated as "a woman of the town." basically would be treated like a prostitute or punished like a prostitute. these older women, of course, garnered more attention from the union occupiers, especially the officers in charge because they're older women, they're more connected to the confederate cause. their husband are off either serving in the government or they're fighting in the war. so they took them very seriously. however, the young women -- the girls of my study group discovered that their youth and their claims of being rather naive because of their age, in addition to their gender actually afforded them more freedom in their defiance. they became more blatant and assertive in their criticism of union troops. by invoking the conventional notions of female behavior and claiming inexperience, young women could avoid the allegiance -- the oath of allegiance, punishment for any sort of acts of defiance. they

- d beev atunr pridt mn w wlde roer >>ete k u,ouen do a advisers still call it, the soviet union, is the number one threat facing america today? >> i believe that governor romney believes that russia has not been conducive in terms of trying to contain iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. they've undermined the u.n. security council efforts to stop that. the fact is, i think, that, you know, when you heard president obama say we're going to have a reset with russia, i don't think that he is -- actually his policy toward russia has been an prent for thenid states. and beeve that we ne t unrsndharuias t lpg rate ntni in. tt' pbay e t mt poanprriese ves naonig n. iaiathee ony. gerh about the president's record. let me play one portion of that. >> he's asking us to accept that washington knows best and can provide all. we've already seen where that path leads. it erodes freedom. it deadens the entrepreneurial spirit. and it hurts the very people it's supposed to help. those who promise to spread the wealth around only ever succeed in spreading poverty around. >> let me focus on freedom as he uses

union also. you have a number of northerners writing in with these add-on gadgets to the monitor. a ram attachment that sounds like one of those infomercial, chopping, dicing machines that has all these different add-ons to the monitor. in this particular case, james wilson proposes a serrated ram. plain old ram isn't good enough. it has to be serrated to cut right through without any issue and it could then be folded up when not in use and not supposedly inhibit the monitor's sailing. also, you have an ex-new york mayor righting in saying i have an idea for a piston ram. let's look a ram to the monitor or any other steamer and assault the enemy and using steam power, hammer a hole in the enemy's hull at the rate of 50 strokes a minute. also, j.g. hull has the same idea of hooking a motor to a ram and hammering the enemy's hull into submission. w.j. thorn also has noticed the wonderful scale, the monitor looks giant. the merrimac looks practically tiny. that the monitor would be given this prou, using steam power could be thrust out of the prou of the vessel into the enemy. my per

collective bargaining rights for public workers last week a federal judge ruled that this is a union law violates a number of rights today more than a million signatures have been collected to help governor walker recalled from office and tonight tom will sit down with the communications director of the democratic party of wisconsin find out what's still being fought for and what's to come that will be all new at the top of the hour. and that's going to do it for now for us but for more on the stories we covered go to you tube dot com slash r t america and just because the show stops doesn't mean news does check out the website r.t. dot com slash usa for the latest information on all the stories we covered and a few we didn't get to take a look at this law enforcement officials are getting a little frisky this week that's because the supreme court ruled that they have the right to strip search anyone they arrest whether the person is detained for unpaid parking tickets or a serial killer want to find out how far these officials are taking it go to our web site for all the details and i want to hear from y

number three, payments to unionized teachers. number four, infrastructure. number five, payroll tax holiday. number six, smaller payroll tax holiday. these are proposed marginal tax hikes. 5.6%, 0.5%, 0.7%, 3.25% and 1.9%, for a total of 11.9% plus deduction limitations. it's pathetic. and they don't seem to have an answer other than let's tax more, and we republicans have filed through the years -- have found through the years that if we go along with any tax increases, instead of getting the cuts that are always promised, they just spend the money. put us deeper in debt. now, as you can see, it's time to end this type of foolish behavior, and i hope that -- i hope that our friends on the other side will work with us to do so, because this country's in real trouble and there's no reason for it. we can turn it around in a very short time if we got serious about economics, if we got serious about the tax situation in this country. and i believe it's time to get serious. i believe that if we don't, we are risking the future of the greatest country in the world

and the fact is that unions only filed objections in approximately 1.5% of the elections and that number includes objections based on many issues other than employee terminations. under the current law, it's illegal to terminate or discriminate in any way against an employee for their union activities. if this occurs during an oil and organizing campaign, the -- if this occurs during an organizing campaign, the national labor relations board is required to -- this occurs in about 1% of all elections and has been decreasing in recent years. i would expect that to increase in succeeding years in this rule passes because this is an attack on small businesses. and the small businesses will not have the necessary information to know what is legal and illegal, especially if they only have ten days to get their act together. the national labor relations board can go even further if they believe a fair election is not possible. they can certify the union regardless of the vote and order the employer to bargain. so i have information on some of the studies that have been done on this, and the num

union boss pay. he makes nearly 300,000 a year. the issue is, nine out of ten -- it's just about up there. you can quibble with the numbers but you're right, david, nine out of ten union members basically are not democrats. a lot of them are republicans and they get corralled and bullied into voting for spending and taxing at the state level when they don't want it. >> rich? >> i'm for full disclosure. if trumpka wants to publicize c.e.o. salaries, that's fine. he was a member of the united mine workers an sanctioned i by a virginia judge. he left the communist party back in the afl/cio and was one step below a socialist, admitting he's worse than that. people should know about his background and i'm for full disclosure. >> dennis, what about this, 37% in the last election -- 37% of union members voted republican. over 90 percent of the dues went to democratic. >> you want to talk about union issues? let's divert to fat cat salaries. that's the business of their shareholder. when a company makes politic -- may i speak? >> we'll give you a chance, rick. >> it doesn't dock worker pay. when a union make worker contributions

union also? so you have a number of northerners writing in with all of these add-on gadgets for the monitor. a ram attachment which makes it sort of sound like kind of one of those infomercial, you know, chopping dicing machines that has all these different add-ons to the "monitor." and in this particular case james wilson proposes a serrated ram. plain old ram isn't good enough. it has to be serrated to, you know, cut right through without any issue. and it could then be folded up when not in use and not supposedly

does governor romney believe that russia or as some of his advisers still call it, the soviet union, is the number one threat facing america today? >> i believe that governor romney believes that russia has not been conducive in terms of trying to contain iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. they've undermined the u.n. security council efforts to stop that. the fact is, i think, that, you know, when you heard president obama say we're going to have a reset with russia, i don't think that he is -- actually his policy toward russia has been an improvement for the united states. and i believe that we need to understand that russia is not helping us relative to containing iran. that's probably one of the most important priorities we have as a nation right now. >> let me move to the economy. as i said at the outset, i watched governor romney's speech very carefully this week. there were parts of it that got people thinking about the sort of campaign he's going to run and what the major messages will be. he went on the offense talking about the president's record. let me play one portion of that. >> he

the clerk: union calendar number 304. h.r. 2050, a bill to authorize the continued use of certain water diversions located on national forest system land in the frank-church river of no return wilderness and the selway-bitter root area and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from utah, mr. bishop, and the gentlewoman from massachusetts, ms. tsongas, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from utah. mr. bishop: again, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. bishop: thank you, mr. speaker. again, we have a bill that does a great job in solving a problem that should have been solved a long time ago. especially if the senate would ever listen to us. and introintroduce his bill i yield as much time as he may consume, the gentleman from idaho, mr. simp