associated with that would be passed down to the membership. so what i am add advocating and in the house oversight and government reform committee yesterday i said the really only good and clear option is to establish a national right-to-work law. that way only the members who agree with the political activity of their unions are financially supporting it and paying it. and those of us who disagree with that political spending can exercise our first amendment right of freedom of association or conversely, the freedom to not associate. and, and actually not have to pay those dues. megyn: yeah. well, i mean, jim angle reported yesterday the administration disbanded the federal unit that is in charge of auditing the largest union, so there will be none in 2012. terry, thank you so much for being here. you re so welcome. thank you for having me. megyn: all the best. well, the situation in syria is going from bad to worse. hundreds of civilians killed in the past few days in government
goes into the union atmosphere. megyn: terry bowman joins me live now. you are on the assembly line at a ford plant in michigan x you speak openly now about the fact that you re a conservative, but you, you don t feel all that accepted at times among your other union members and, i guess, some union leaders given your political views. what exactly is your beef? well, first of all, megyn, thank you so much for having me on your show today. the beef really is the fact that i am forced as a condition of employment to financially support many of these political activities that the unions engage in each and every day. and, um, obviously we think that that runs contrary to true american beliefs of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. so what we re doing is we re getting together all of the union members who disagree with union officials political spending and finally getting to the point that says we ve had enough. and we are pro-union, but in the context of what unions were origin
megyn: congress is now investigating how unions use the dues taken from their members paychecks. a big chunk of that cash goes to political activities. unions spent 1.1 billion in the last election cycle, but not all of their members may agree with how the money gets spent. terry bowman is a member of the united autoworkers union, and he has had enough be. he started the group union conservatives, and he shared his exappearance with experience with house subcommittee members yesterday. i do have some democrats who are signed up that say they don t necessarily believe in my political affiliation. however, they do think that all union members should have the right to speak their mind without fear of harassment and ridicule which, of course, on the assembly line many people agree with what i agree with, but they keep their heads down because of the intimidation that
forcing people of faith to violate their beliefs. and catholics happen to be a crucial voting bloc. one in every five americans is catholic. nearly 35 and a half million of them voted in 2008, and the majority of them, over 19 million, voted for president obama. chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com. chris, this is turning into quite a firestorm for the white house. we covered this last week a couple of times, it wasn t big in the national conversation. a week later very different story by the way, chris is at cpac. anyway, covering the news for us down there. now the din has gotten too loud for the white house to ignore, and there is a real question today about whether the president can dig in his heels on this issue. what say you? well, look, here s the deal, megyn. here at see pack this become a rallying cry from conservatives. we ve heard from marco rubio, we re going to hear from john boehner, they re hammerin
crucial voting bloc. one in every five americans is catholic. nearly 35 and a half million of them voted in 2008, and the majority of them, over 19 million, voted for president obama. chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com. chris, this is turning into quite a firestorm for the white house. we covered this last week a couple of times, it wasn t big in the national conversation. a week later very different story by the way, chris is at cpac. anyway, covering the news for us down there. now the din has gotten too loud for the white house to ignore, and there is a real question today about whether the president can dig in his heels on this issue. what say you? well, look, here s the deal, megyn. here at see pack this become a rallying cry from conservatives. we ve heard from marco rubio, we re going to hear from john boehner, they re hammering the president with it because they know it works. they know that it upsets no