| Speech notes. Sen. Dodd decried "an administration that
seems determined to undermine at every turn basic workers' rights in this
country: overtime pay, the right to collective bargaining, attacking public
workers whom we charge with some of the nation's most important responsibilities."
"I'm proud to say over 32 years I have stood with unions," Dodd said.
He pointed to several signature accomplishments including the Family and
Medical Leave Act, the first federal child care law since World War II,
and reform of election laws after 2000, and he earned a standing ovation
when he pointed to "having written the FIRE Act and the SAFER Act and passing
it to law." "As a result of those two pieces of legislation more
than 30,000 grants totaling more than $3 billion have been awarded to communities
throughout the country to help them hire, train and equip fire fighters
in the United States," Dodd said. "It never ever would have happened
had it not been for Harold Schaitberger and for the people in this room
and others around the country who lobbied hard for it."
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