Democrats are eyeing the Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary pick selection as a prime opportunity to chip away at the Republican’s populist appeal with working-class voters and begin rebuilding their own party’s economic message. Given the narrow GOP majority in the Senate, Steven Mnuchin is likely to be confirmed.
Month: November 2016
Democrats plan lengthy hearings for Trump Cabinet nominees
Democratic senators plan to aggressively target eight of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees in the coming weeks and are pushing to stretch their confirmation votes into March – an unprecedented break with Senate tradition. Such delays would upend Republican hopes of quickly holding hearings and confirming most of Trump’s top picks on Inauguration Day.
Oneida County
The Lakeland Times filed this week an open-meetings complaint against an Oneida County committee for a closed session the paper alleges violated the law multiple times. Friday, December 9, 2016 County officials plan to file a written complaint related to the conduct of a detective sergeant “in the near future,” Oneida County Corporation Counsel Brian Desmond told the county’s law enforcement grievance committee Dec. 16. Friday, December 23, 2016 The Oneida County Forestry Committee held a special meeting Dec. 14 to discuss a land use contract with Brazilian financial company BTG Pactual that must be signed in order for snowmobile enthusiasts to access a number of trails on the western side of the county.
Trump ushers in a new age of deceit
On Friday, Donald Trump will place his left hand on a Bible, raise his right hand in the air, and, repeating after U.S. Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts, take the oath of the highest office in the land. It’s funny, in a dark sort of way, because the dude taking this solemn oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution is one of the most notorious liars our country has ever elected.
Study finds November 9 was the day with the most ‘f-words’ used online
Has 2016 been the crudest year ever? Study finds almost one-billion ‘f-words’ were written on social media this year – with the most coming the day after Donald Trump was elected Almost one-billion f-words were tweeted, posted, commented, shared and blogged across the internet in 2016, a new study has found. Analysis carried out on the language used across the internet found the word ‘f**k’ was used 946,158,697 times this year.
General Aviation Accident Bulletin
Pilots should be wary when operating close to the boundaries of Class B airspace, the FAA said recently in a Safety Alert for Operators…. Years ago, new GPS approaches were commissioned at Houma, LA and the FAA King Air was flight checking them …Tower: ‘Report… In the Flytenow case, the FAA applied old thinking that doesn’t work in a world where technology moves at the speed of heat. VFR into IMC events have a distressingly high fatality rate.