First, all Government Spending ends on september 30. And that literally means if therethere is not a compromise reached, the entire federal government would shut down. A place like this that means like every civilian job like Tinker Air Force base, it means the district has four veteran centers your they wouldnt be open. Veterans hospital closed down. The National Weather center that give us as much warning as you can give anybody about the tornadoes wouldnt be operating. So thats a pretty contentious issue. Well also had the National Debt ceiling sometime probably in midnovember. That creates not a Government Shutdown scenario but if you dont find a way to resolve it, sort of a, across the board 35 cut in all Government Agencies because you couldnt finance government. And, finally, the immigration issue has been very contentious issue. The senate has passed a bill. Its not likely to be a bill that the house will pass. The house has passed for smaller goes through committee, through ju
Businesses get it and now how important it is for the vitality of america and endorsed by the aflcio, so labor understands it also. We thank both labor and Business Community for supporting the immigration bill. [applause] so, nick, youve been involved in ufcw, packing house workers and stuff, and its been my experience as i toured them, and i didnt work in them like durbin did. He was a meat cutter in packing houses, but as ive traveled around, i see more and more of the Latino Community working in our packing houses and meat cutting places you represent. Tell us about that. Im with local cw222 from northwest iowa. We have a packing house in cherokee, iowa, and dakota city, nebraska. Too together, thats roughly close to 5,000 employee, and 75 of them are latino. 75 . Yes, yes, so 75 of the membership who we represent are latino and imMigrant Workers, so, again, good morning, ladies and gentlemen, of the panel and audience, senators, im honored to be here to talk about an issue that af
Were beginning to see some people sighing that they dont like drones either. And so we havent really been able i think that the side that wants to talk about scaling back the war on terrorism at this point should also talk about the idea that its not a false choice to quote obama from the National Archives speech between liberty and security. Its a very real choice. And we should be coming to terms with that. I think liberty vs. Security in the various tradeoffs and how much terrorism and daniel youre willing to accept inflicteden on you would be a great other planl for us to have. Im just saying i think weve had a lot of a kind of i think sometimes we treat this conversation like were children and we want to believe that we can have everything. Nd we cant. Id like democracy, no terrorism, you know, a smaller government. Theres all kinds of things you want but you have to look at it in the real context. Do you want to make the last comment . Yeah. I actually, you know, as somebody who
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