she was voted the unionist of the year for going beyond the call of duty to protect worker'' rights. it has been resolved that the board of education and the unified school district commence her and thanks report for many decades of service to the students and workers of san francisco public schools and for pushing the san francisco unified school district to be a good and fair employer. the board of education were -- wishes her much health and happiness thru our retirement. >> before you come on up, we have some formalities. i do not know if you wanted to speak on behalf of the fdiu. >> could we ask that all of our names be added to the resolution? >> you will have a separate time, karen, if you want to -- we have to vote on this still. >> good evening, superintendent, carlos garcia, and commissioners. it is my great honor to be here so that you could give karen this wonderful commendation. she has been a mentor to me and has taught me about being an activist and a fighter in this union. that is what i am, a fighter. i got that from karen. it takes a lot to do the work of a chapter

she was voted the unionist of the year for going beyond the call of duty to protect worker'' rights. it has been resolved that the board of education and the unified school district commence her and thanks report for many decades of service to

madison was all his life a firm a unionist. he had written the virginia resolve in 1798 when the federalist party seemed to be going wild. they passed the indian act. that looked like they were imposing almost a dictatorship on america. madison injects fear so they wrote these revolutions say states have the power to interpose when the federal government was doing something unconstitutional. but madison, as an old man, he always said, i meant the states for. i never an individual state have such power. and what i meant is what happened in 1798, that states would raise the alarm and then we would throw the bums out in the next election. as what happened in 1800. that's my modified this should be. i was not talking about secession. he said the joint of a resolution -- the revolution, we can always have a revolution. and that never goes away. you can't smuggle it in through the constitution. if things are that bad, burn it all down and leave. that's not what southerners would say. they're saying we have a right to secede. madison

now, madison was all his life a firm unionist.he had written the virginia resolve in 1798 when the federalist party seemed to be going wild. they passed the alien act and the sedition act, and it looked like they were, um, imposing almost a dictatorship on america, that's what madison and jefferson feared. so they wrote these resolutions saying that states had the power to interpose when the federal government was doing something unconstitutional. but madison as an old man, he always said i meant the states, plural, i never meant that an individual state had such power. and what i meant was what actually happened in 1798, that states would raise the alarm, and then we'd throw the bums out at the next election which was what happened in 1800, and he always said that's my model for how this should be. i was not talking about secession. he said, if you want to have a revolution, you always are the right of revolution. you know, that never goes away. but that's outside the constitution, you know? you can't smuggle it in through the co

she was voted the unionist of the year for going beyond the call of duty to protect

last year, 51 trade unionists were assassinated. not accidentally killed. potentially assassinated. 51 ceos had been intentionally assassinated last year, how many people here think there would be a clamor for a trade deal with columbia? we happen to think that workers, union officials are no less deserving as human beings than ceos. so we will continue to fight that. i will add this. workers on both sides of the border. the korean workers' and colombian workers also oppose those traded raiments because they know they're not going to be good for workers on either side of the border so until we get a trade regime that is fair to american workers, not jobs, we will oppose that regime. >> i certainly understand your opposition but with the poisonous atmosphere in congress are you hopeful maybe they won't be able to get this done, that they won't be able to create -- >> first of all, the republicans don't want to add taa, trade adjustment assistance to train workers who lose their jobs because of trade. they don't want to add that. that makes our job when frank

with that whole series of exchanges between colombian trade unionists in this group and activists aregoing to colombia. larry cohen, the president of the union, confronted the previous president of columbia a year or two ago around a continuing violation of workers rights in colombia. and again i think the lesson of that model program is its bottom up, it's worker to worker. its rank-and-file. we are not rely on national endowment money to finance this partnership. i will say that the solitary center has been very helpful throughout the 10 years that we and kerry was one of the staffers who helped get it off the ground. >> ten cents per member per year. that's really bottom up. >> not a lot of money but it's not a mandatory assessment. a local have to care enough about this program, has to of had some members who have met, courageous colombian trade union. joint work of fighting free trade agreement, fighting his dread plan colombia like a wars in iraq and afghanistan drained billions of dollars, tax dollars out of this country that could go much more profitably to filling some of the

we happen to think the trade unionists lives are every bit as important as ceo lives. see, we also need to reconsider the economic baseless idea that deficits are the problem and austerity is the answer. four fridays ago we learned unemployment was stuck at 9.1% and the interest rate for 10-year bonds was approaching a record low. now, if the nation really were in danger of a debt crisis, the interest rates on u.s. bonds would be climbing, not cratering. take a look at greece. see we have a massive jobs crisis that's caused by collapsing demand and austerity will make it worse, not better. the economic crisis and the growing budget deficit created a opening for tea party extremists and the hypocritical obstructionism of congressional republicans. and they succeeded in creating a fake fiscal crisis last summer that needlessly jeopardized our country's credit. see there's a difference between phony crisis and real ones. our challenge today is preserving jobs and creating new ones. not throwing people out of work and cutting off essential services and benefits. as the new

it provided paramilitary death squads with the names of trade unionists to be murdered and carried out illegal surveillance on journalists, human rights defenders, political opposition leaders and supreme court judges. american cash, equipment, and training to help shut down truck trafficking may have been used for spy operations, smear campaigns and threats against civil society leaders in colombia. several u.s. agencies aided the d.a.s. the state department, pentagon, d.e.a., c.i.a., even as scandal after scandal became publicly known. it was only in april, 2010, when u.s. ambassador william brownfield, suspended usaid to the d.a.s., diverting the resources to the colombian national police. yesterday, congresswoman schakowsky and i sent a letter to the secretaries of state and defense, the u.s. attorney general and c.i.a. director asking them to provide documentation of all forms of aid to the d.a.s. and what it was used for. that's not too much to ask for. there has been a -- there has been a shocking lack of oversight of the d.a.s. funds in the last decade. colombia appears to be d

the fact that the government has not been able to stem the intentional violence against trade unionists should bring most people to their senses and hopefully they will vote against that bill as well. >> can you tell us some of the things that you are asking the labor department to do? to help stimulate job creation and to help insure workers were currently employed targeting the wages they're supposed to get? >> we are asking them to enforce laws and protect workers. that is whether it is health and safety laws in the work places, and we are asking her to step up enforcement of the fair labor standards act. people should be paid the right rate. sometimes they get reclassified. we are asking her to look into classifications. we're asking her to do everything to make sure that workers get the full pay they are entitled to. quite frankly, she has responded admirably. she has enforced better than anybody in the last decade. she has done a terrific job. we are very supportive and thankful for what she does to protect workers. >> at this point, i would like to go to the telephone. operators,

the moneys that may be going there and the killing of trade unionists. it's all right to be a neighbor but it is horrible to take intelligence funds and be part of the killing of trade unions. i yield back. i hope we can change that. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i will reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to yield 2 1/2 minutes to the whip, the gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i thank the gentlelady as well. while i would prefer us to be addressing a re-authorization of no child left behind, today's legislation reflects bipartisan support for innovation and public schools and improving educational opportunities for students who still lack access to a high

the fact that the government has not been able to stem the intentional violence against trade unionists should bring most people to their senses and hopefully they will vote against that bill as well. >> can you tell us some of the things that you are asking the labor department to do? to help stimulate job creation and to help insure workers were currently employed targeting the wages they're supposed to get? >> we are asking them to enforce laws and protect workers. that is whether it is health and safety laws in the work places, and we are asking her to step up enforcement of the fair labor standards act. people should be paid the right rate. sometimes they get reclassified. we are asking her to look into classifications. we're asking her to do everything to make sure that workers get the full pay they are entitled to. quite frankly, she has responded admirably. she has enforced better than anybody in the last decade. she has done a terrific job. we are very supportive and thankful for what she does to protect workers. >> at this point, i would like to go to the telephone. operators,

on the ticket 8064 not because anyone wanted him as president, but because he was a southerner, unionistt bought it would expand the a tour base of the republican party. johnson turned out a month later to be the worst president in american history. it was a tragedy that lincoln was killed. the problem of reconstruction was a deep, deep problem, but johnson was utterly incapable of dealing with it. maybe lincoln would have been able to better, but on that note of counterfactual history let me stop and think you all and have a nice rest of the day. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> live from the national mall, the national book festival, the 11th annual. this is book tv on c-span2. that was columbia university professor and lincoln historian. now, joining a seer to take calls coming in else, and tweets. numbers are on the screen if you would like to talk. 202 is the area code. you can send an e-mail, book tv at c-span.org, or tweet twitter.com/booktv. joining us in just a few minutes. after that we have several collins. still coming up the former fbi agents. sylvia nasa, grand pursuit,