Blue Collar Jobs
FORT WORTH, TX -Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) issued the following statement regarding Fort Worth-based Bell Helicopter’s announcement, on Monday, that it is laying off 290 hourly workers companywide due to federal spending cuts called the sequester.
Bell Helicopter Textron is cutting 290 jobs from its Fort Worth workforce. The layoffs are effective immediately and include hourly, salaried and management employees. Also being cut are about 85 Bell contractors…
Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, used the layoffs to voice his disapproval of sequestration in a statement issued by his office…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Marc Veasey (TX-33) released the following statement today after the House voted 230 to 189 to pass the Republican Continuing Resolution:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This morning, Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) made the following statement US Airways-American Airlines merger press conference and rally which takes place in Washington today at 12:00 p.m.:
"American Airlines and US Airways joining together to form the new American is critical for the viability of both air carriers and a benefit to air passengers and the thousands of employees of both of these companies. Finalizing this deal means job security for over 24,000 Texans.”
Pro-merger airline workers: Hundreds of flight attendants, pilots, airport gate workers, mechanics and other employees of American Airlines and US Airways are set to flood the Hill today. The groups have more than 350 meetings with members’ offices to ask them to press DOJ to drop its suit against a proposed merger between the two airlines.
Hundreds of American Airlines and US Airways employees are set to rally outside of Capitol Hill at noon on Wednesday to build support for the airlines’ proposed $14 billion merger. Two members from the Texas Congressional delegation, Michael Burgess (R-Lewisville) and Marc Veasey (D-Fort Worth) will join other members of Congress along with union members and leaders…
Dozens of American Airlines employees and a few US Airways workers boarded a charter flight at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport on Tuesday to head to Washington, D.C., to rally in support of the airlines’ merger.
The rally is scheduled to include U.S. Reps. Michael Burgess, R-Flower Mound; Robert Brady, D-Pa.; Pat Meehan, R-Pa.; Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth; and Robert Pittenger, R-N.C.’
WASHINGTON, DC -- Rep. Marc Veasey (TX-33) released the following statement regarding the House vote on H.R. 2775 “No Subsidies Without Verification Act”
“Today, instead of bringing up a jobs bill, House Republicans are holding the 41st Vote to undermine and repeal the Affordable Care Act.
H.R. 2775, known as the “No Subsidies Without Verification Act,” would delay millions getting coverage, placing unworkable requirements on HHS that it has no resources to perform and which are outside its role.
ARLINGTON, TX -- Congressman Marc Veasey, TX-33, was joined by U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Arlington, Councilman Jimmy Bennett, Bill Porter, Mayor Cluck and Arlington business owners at a press conference in support of the Marketplace Fairness Act.
The act is proposed bipartisan legislation in Congress that would allow states to collect sales and use taxes from out-of-state retailers, as well as streamline sales tax laws.
Arlington Camera owner Bill Porter said his employees sometimes spend an hour helping customers choose thousands of dollars worth of camera gear -- only to lose that sale to an out-of-state online retailer that isn’t required to collect sales taxes on that purchase.
Recently, Porter said, a would-be customer chose not to purchase a $2,700 Nikon lens in the store because he realized he could save more than $200 in sales tax by buying it online.