Thomas Foley: “I have three letters here, one from the AFL-CIO, one from International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and one from a group…”

“I have three letters here, one from the AFL-CIO, one from International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and one from a group called Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, all dated yesterday. So my point is I know why from the time that this was a concept and this quote was made, through the time that a bipartisan effort was put together, to the time of yesterday, when Mr. Sweeney barked, they jumped. That is what is going on here. When the Sweeneys and the Washington union bosses barked, they jumped and changed and took another tack on this and offered the Oberstar amendment.”