House Proceeding 03-19-07 on Mar 19th, 2007 :: 0:32:52 to 0:37:38
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Speech By: Peter A. DeFazio

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Peter A. DeFazio: the senate. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has agreed to s.j.res.

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Carolyn McCarthy: 5, proclaiming polaski to be an honorary citizen of the united states in which the concurrence of the house is requested. the speaker pro tempore: mr. burton from indiana. mrs. mccarthy from

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Speech By: Carolyn McCarthy

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Carolyn McCarthy: new york. the gentlewoman is recognized for five minutes. mrs. mccarthy: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, if she would have heard our colleagues coming down to the well and talking passionately

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Carolyn McCarthy: on the anniversary of the iraqi war, and the debate that will go on later on this week and a vote that will come on to the floor of the house, i think that this is what certainly we want

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Carolyn McCarthy: to see the american people want to see. tonight, mr. speaker, i also want to talk about something else. we in congress must keep our eyes and ears open on all things that are happening

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Carolyn McCarthy: around us. today i want to talk about the tens of thousands of federal ave aviation employees working without a contract. most of these workers are represented by the air traffic controllers

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Carolyn McCarthy: association, and the american federation of state, county, and municipal employees. the f.a.a. under the bush administration has attacked the collective bargaining process. the f.a.a. has

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Carolyn McCarthy: not implemented a single negotiated and ratified contract with any of its contract unions. f.a.a. employees need a fair and collective bargaining process restored. just as this house gave

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Carolyn McCarthy: collective bargaining rights to t.s.a. employees in the 9/11 bill which was the right thing to do, we must do no less for the employees of the f.a.a. let me be very clear on this point.

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Carolyn McCarthy: our air traffic controllers do not have a contract with the f.a.a. the f.a.a. imposed work and pay rules on these individuals last september. there is no federal law that recognizes imposed

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Carolyn McCarthy: work and pay rules as a contract. morale among f.a.a. employees is extremely low. retirements are far exceeding f.a.a.'s planning. fatigue among those employees who remain is a major concern. and

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Carolyn McCarthy: these are all directly effects of the unilateral imposed work rules. in 2003 there were over 15,000 air traffic controllers. at the end of 2006 there were barely 14,000. of the 14,000 working

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Carolyn McCarthy: today, almost 2,000 of them are trainees and not fully certified. at the same time and by no means by coincidence operational errors are on the rise at the f.a.a.'s busiest facilities, including

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Carolyn McCarthy: atlanta heartsfield and the southern california tracon. current projections are by the year 2010, which is only a few years away, 40% of the air traffic control work force will have less

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Carolyn McCarthy: than four years or less on the job. this house has a duty to these individuals to a fair process that is all they are asking for. nothing more, nothing less. mr. speaker, a lot of people don't

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Carolyn McCarthy: understand the job that air traffic controllers have. but yet they have the control over thousands and thousands of lives on a daily basis. every single day that people fly it's the air

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Carolyn McCarthy: traffic controllers that are basically controlling the skies to make us safe. and being that we are talking about 9/11, think about our air traffic controllers did on that day. they brought

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Carolyn McCarthy: down thousands and thousands of planes without one incident. they saved so many lives. and yet here we are trying to take away, the administration is taking away the right for them to earn

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Carolyn McCarthy: a decent pay. the pressure that's up in those towers is unbelievable. i have spent time there. just to see what that job was like. they are not asking for more or less. all they are asking for is a

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Carolyn McCarthy: contract. this house has a duty to make sure that those workers have what's due them. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose

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Carolyn McCarthy: does the gentleman from massachusetts rise? mr. mcgovern: i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will

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Carolyn McCarthy: report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 254, a resolution providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 1227, to assist in the provision of affordable housing to low-income

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Lynn C. Woolsey: families affected by hurricane katrina. the speaker pro tempore: the bill is referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. mr. king from iowa. mr. doggett from texas. for what purpose does