California meal and rest break is a mess and needs to be fixed
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DeFazio understands the problem with California Meal & Rest Break Law "California is a mess and needs to be fixed" then he moves on to say "if you want to deal with angry independent truckers" CA Meal & Rest Break has nothing to do with independent truckers, where is he getting his information "talk to the teamsters" Mr DeFazio is getting misinformation from his buddies.
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Denham - Not only a California problem
"if it has not come to your state beware it will come to your state very very soon by way of lawsuit" "the California law right now is unattainable" |
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The bravest Democrat on the House T & I Committee disagreeing vehemently with her own party on the impact of the Denham Amendment. Her statement comes at 2:58:35 in the video link. If you'd like to watch & listen to the entire debate over a Democratic amendment to strip Section 611 from the FAA bill, it begins at 2:44:35. Rep. Brown (D-FL) is reminding her own party that they controlled the House in 1994 when the original language was adopted prohibiting states from doing what California is doing.
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Shuster - "1994 in a Democratic controlled House it was passed on a bipartisan basis to make it clear"
"we have federal rules on the books dealing with interstate commerce and California is doing things that are disrupting that" "Let me tell you who this supports, it's the trial lawyers, the trial lawyers are one of the largest contributors to the other side" "trucking companies that are leaving California or have left or deciding not there not going to California" |
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Costello - points out what drivers want and the myth about piece pay.
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Barletta - "this is not how the real world works"
"this patchwork of laws is creating lawsuit after lawsuit for the trucking industry and the delivery of goods in American" "the only thing that's not delivered by a truck in a America is a baby" |