Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, let us focus on what this debate is really about. This provision for FedEx is another assault on the American middle class, the American middle class that has been attacked for over 15 years by our Nation's terrible trade policies, technology, profit driven downsizing, profit-driven deregulation, and systematic sinister weakening of unions. How, you ask? Let me explain. During the debate on the rule, I outlined the history of this dubious Federal Express provision. Let us take a closer look at what my colleagues are calling a technical correction. The last express carrier, as defined by the ICC, went out of existence 20 years ago, so at the ICC's suggestion the classification was removed from statute because it was obsolete. But suddenly, after the ICC bill is signed into law, one company and its countless consultants decided that it might want to be an express carrier some day and started knocking on doors up here. I have already outlined the five other times FedEx has tried to get this provision into law. Judging by the consistent effort and expense they have gone to, it must really be important for them to remove this dead classification. But why? Federal Express would not go through all this trouble if they were not going to get something out of it. The fact is that it is much more difficult for a union to organize under the Railway Labor Act than under the National Labor Relations Act.”