The focal point of the conference was mainly around the loss of manufacturing jobs in America in the last few years. Caused by bad legislation, no legislation, and legislators who just don’t care, 2.7 millions manufacturing jobs have been lost in the last 3 years.
     This will be the first administration with negative job growth since the depression. Why are they wanting to pass more trade agreements? What we need is legislation that will bring our manufacturing jobs back to America; legislation that will protect workers rights to join Unions; legislation that will protect retired workers benefits. The list goes on and on. The Crisis in America today is in manufacturing. We must let the Legislators know we are watching.
      The Industrial Union Council Legislative Conference meeting we attended centered around Revitalizing American Manufacturing featuring speeches from Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy and Linda Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO.
     On Tuesday we visited several Representatives of Texas. Nicholas V. Lampson, D-9th, Ron E. Paul, R-14th, Gene Green, D-29th, and Tom Delay, R-22th.
     On the final day of our Rapid Response Overview we had Independent Representative Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, speak on what is going on, on Capitol Hill. Issues like the overtime bill, FTAA, and job loss in America.
     Rapid Response is going to be a very important part of bringing the government back to the people.

Representative Gene Green	Minority Leader Tom Daschle	Representative Nancy Pelosi	Representative Bernard Sanders