Co2. For a full schedule, go to cspan. Org. Chris shelton as president of the Communications Workers of America Union and he is our guest this week on the communicators. Welcome to cspan. We have approximately 700,000 members in every walk of life, reporters, nurses, even some rocket scientists in new jersey. We have printers, manufacturing folks, you name it, we have them. We are not the old cwa. How is it you can represent . We have merged a lot of other unions. The last one was the flight attendants union. We have represented these folks. We have been merging other unions. What are some of the other Telecommunications Companies . At t, frontier, verizon, tmobile. Come apeaking of verizon 45 day strike recently ended. What came out of that . What was the strike about . The strike was about one thing and one thing only, jobs and job security. For verizon, it was about a lot of things. We managed to come out of it with what we wanted and i think we did very well. Verizon also did ok. T
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Mcconnell i ask further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell im not sure if you have a fax machine at home, not Many Americans do anymore. Neither do a lot of Small Businesses. So it seems a bit a odd to tell Small Businesses they need to fax in enrollment foamplet for be obamacare for obamacare. That is what the Obama Administration is now doing. I might paraphrase the president , the 1980s called and they want their Health Policy back. Now, to be fair, snail mail is also an option and it looks like the president s people will try to have the issue fixed soon despite passing the law more than three years ago. But then again this is the same president who told us that obamacare is working the way its supposed to, president obama said, and that those who already have Health
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Drear check deposited in their bank account. The death toll from mexicos backtoback hurricanes has now gone up to 97 with dozens of people still missing. The resort area around acapulco is still suffering from flooding and landslides even though the latest storm has den downgraded and moved through. Residents are bracing for more storms. David mercer has more from mexico city reporter manuel left a path of destruction in southwestern mexico has moved up to the northwestern part of the country. We have heard there could be up 30 to 0. 45 meters of rain dropped in that area. We have heard that there could be heavy strong winds. There have been evacuations. The state is on red alert and schools are being cancelled. But so far up in this Northwest Region of mexico, we havent seen the same sort of destruction as we did in the southern part of the country. On wednesday, i was in acapulco where around in that area where the majority of the people have been trapped. People who have been killed
They must open up markets for americas businesses and must add to the millions of american jobs that are currently supported by trade. As Congress Comes together in support of trade deals well help expand the biggest, the biggest mark place in the Global Economy and rereinforce the position to invest and export. To that end, were working to complete a transpacific partnership. This will boost exports and level the Playing Field in the asia pacific. I want to point out that the United States welcomes investment from around the world, from every type of intrep enterprise, and all sectors. We are scommitted to mane taining the most open and transparent investment environment. Our process for reviewing National Security cases of Foreign Investment in the United States focuses solely on National Security considerations and reviews are pleated within a completed within a period of one to three months. So as we press forward, we know where we need to focus our efforts. The prioritiest just ou