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Topic: GOP fumes as TSA head
skips aviation security hearing |
GOP fumes as TSA head
skips aviation security hearing
The Hill [Washington DC], by Keith Laing
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Posted By:JoniTx, 11/29/2012 7:20:36 PM
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| Republicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee sharply criticized the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for skipping a scheduled hearing on Thursday. Republicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee sharply criticized the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for skipping a scheduled hearing on Thursday. TSA Administrator John Pistole was listed as an invited guest for the hearing, which was focused on the aviation security agency´s impact on commerce in the United States. But when Aviation Subcommittee Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis.) called Thursday´s meeting to order, Pistole´s seat was empty.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
FL_Absentee_Voter, 11/29/2012 7:26:19 PM (No. 9040232)
Wasn´t Petri listening four years ago? They won.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 11/29/2012 7:35:04 PM (No. 9040240)
The Left´s version of bipartisanship.
We all know how they will behave now: worse than ever. I say, go for it! Show those Americans who voted for Obama and the Democrats what they have done. It is the only way some of them will ever learn.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Calico Al, 11/29/2012 7:54:51 PM (No. 9040268)
Maybe this could be a place to cut spending?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/29/2012 8:03:54 PM (No. 9040281)
Time for the republicans to take to the airwaves over this total neglect of national security issues.
Pile on the low life jerks.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mark1973, 11/29/2012 8:14:57 PM (No. 9040301)
More theatre from the GOP pretending they are upset. Hey George W.Bush,thanks again for this out of control agency along with the Department of Homeland Security. Violating and eliminating our Right´s was alway´s the end goal of both the repubs and dems, bin establishing these agencies.
The repubs have become a mirror image of the dems.
We need a new Party and we need it now!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
dittohead, 11/29/2012 8:15:17 PM (No. 9040302)
They won, don´t you guys know this?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
fireman28, 11/29/2012 8:21:22 PM (No. 9040311)
#1 & #6 are correct. They won and will stick it to the impotent GOP, big time.
From Bengazi to the TSA, Justice, et al. The Administration is thumbing its nose at Congress.
The only TV channel that gives the GOP airtime is FOX.
In other words - shut up for the next four years.
We are totally ......
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/29/2012 8:43:11 PM (No. 9040341)
Congress exercises no power so has none.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
zzzghy, 11/29/2012 8:52:22 PM (No. 9040359)
What happens, exactly, when the gop "fumes?"
That´s what I thought.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
nonsense, 11/29/2012 9:04:19 PM (No. 9040373)
Obama has made congress irrelevant. The country will never survive another 4 years of this corrupt regime.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack, 11/29/2012 10:41:44 PM (No. 9040460)
Ever hear of subpoenas?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hisself, 11/29/2012 10:57:10 PM (No. 9040468)
Defund TSA! The house can remove all TSA funding from ALL fiscal bills.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
enuf8, 11/29/2012 11:08:31 PM (No. 9040475)
TSA has been so ineffective the entire set up should be scrubbed. TSA agents in airports have found NO ONE since it´s inception, so where is its value. Besides, the only ´bombers´ have come from foreign soil and they were "set-ups".
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 11/29/2012 11:59:56 PM (No. 9040513)
Clint Eastwood should have had many chairs on stage.....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
PChristopher, 11/30/2012 12:58:00 AM (No. 9040550)
Unless Republicans man up and have him hauled before them, the best you´ll be able to hope for is telling on him to his mom...otherwise, forget it. I fear that you are just a bunch of hopeless wimps that we conservatives have the great misfortune of having in office at this time. Dear God, protect this country.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mws50, 11/30/2012 1:35:20 AM (No. 9040579)
GOP to Pistole: You will show up or your agency will lose 40% of its funding.
Surely our GOP leaders are smart enough to use this very powerful incentive for the TSA to show up at their hearing.
/s
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
veritas, 11/30/2012 1:58:21 AM (No. 9040589)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So do somethingabout it.
These morons still don´t see the Obama administration as the threat to the nation that it is.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 11/30/2012 3:59:13 AM (No. 9040620)
The TSA is so ineffective that a favored national park border between Mexico & the U.S. is now on an honor basis. A shiney new border control building is 200 miles away. THIS tells you what the WH & his worthless administration think about national security.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/30/2012 4:50:56 AM (No. 9040637)
None of these Obamaunist appointees want to be held accountable for the disastrous jobs they´re doing.Instead of going up there and lying and weaseling for 3 hours they just skip it.
These people hate any judgments being made on them by republicans and its just another way to dismantle the construction of our government.We´re in the middle of a grand coup by these people but they´re slick enough to avoid blame.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas, 11/30/2012 7:44:00 AM (No. 9040775)
He was invited. It gives one the right to decline. GOP needs to grow up. If they wanted him there they have the power to get him there. If it is not that important then it´s probably worth skipping.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
privateer, 11/30/2012 9:41:58 AM (No. 9041004)
I can see no value in Republicans taking part in these type of committee meetings. Dictators neither respect nor heed what committees have to say. Republicans should consult Delingpole and Hannan for the creation and operation of a Shadow Government.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mws50, 12/1/2012 8:27:25 AM (No. 9042632)
#18, That border crossing was wide open prior to 9-11. The citizens of Boquillas were free to cross and buy stuff at the Big Bend store, instead of making a 200 miles round trip, and US visitors to Big Bend could freely cross and purchase stuff from the citizens of Boquillas.
This is no big deal. In fact, it is more restrictive now, than it was on 9-10-01. Look at a map, notice the Mexican side of the map. This is not convenient for any drug runners or coyotes, and I assume they would not want to cross the border into a National Park, filled with full time Rangers.
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