For years we have seen EIR's [Environmental Impact Reports] required for developments, projects and public works projects that might impact the environment, natural resources, the air, water and the like.
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For too long we have not required, when Congress passes a trade bill, a foreign bank, a foreign country, funds a trade project or treaty's enforcement, approves some change in policy that impacts manufacturing and transportation, that a JIR [Job Impact Report be generated by an independent entity for the public's consumption.
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When we look at NAFTA, TPP, private contracting with off shore companies (or armies) or any of the countless trade pacts, import regulations, harbor management rules, we need to know HOW we are going to impact jobs in this country.
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Something like a JIR is needed so Americans can understand what Congress' special interest funders is doing to us.
Friday, January 22, 2016
CONGRESSMAN PETE AGUILAR [CA-31] & PAUL COOK [CA-08] VOTE TO BAN $11.4 BILLION in ADDITIONAL BENEFITS from SOCIAL SECURITY--Shame!!!
Due to a controversial clause buried on page 70 of last year's H.R. 1314
bill [in Section 831], an estimated $11.4 billion in additional benefits are set to be
banned in the coming months. The reason? The legislation makes it quite clear: "To prevent individuals from obtaining larger benefits than Congress intended"--the problem is that the benefit is defined by what workers pay in--it's none of Congress @#$* business. The Public Broadcasting System said: Instead of holding a public debate, Congress tacked these changes onto an emergency bill. There was not public evaluation or discussion of these changes, and there are still no publicly identified authors of these reforms". Time magazine said that "Congress is pulling the rug out from people's retirement decisions...No retiress will ever be able to feel their Social Security benefits are safe from some backroom, midnight, rushed change in rules that are designed to meet some budget targets or accomodate some politician's wishes."
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Congressmen Paul Cook [CA-08] & Pete Knight [CA-25] are ok with killing kids as long as its mining waste!
H.R. 1644 [called Delay Mountaintop Mining Valley Fill Rules] which
Paul Cook voted for would prohibit the Department of the Interior (DOI)
from
issuing any rule regarding prohibited surface mining areas near streams
until a year after the National Academy of Science (ANS) has submitted
an evaluative report of the current rule to Congress. It gives two years
for NAS to submit the report, meaning DOI would be prevented from
issuing further rules for up to three years. Don't we have enough water
quality problems without giving coal operators a license to pollute
without fear of government oversight? Wow. Flint Michigan lead, Hinkley
& PG&E....when will Cook and Knight care about the people? Both are big into the right-to-life movement--a slow kill with chemical pollution is ok?
Sunday, January 10, 2016
BobConawayforCongress: PETE AGUILAR [D-FONTANA] GETS TAX CREDITS PAID FOR...
BobConawayforCongress: PETE AGUILAR [D-FONTANA] GETS TAX CREDITS PAID FOR...: PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dateline: January 10, 2016 . PETE AGUILAR [D-FONTANA] GETS TAX CREDITS PAID FOR BY TAKING FUNDS FROM S...
PETE AGUILAR [D-FONTANA] GETS TAX CREDITS PAID FOR BY TAKING FUNDS FROM SOCIAL SECURITY – BOB CONAWAY HAS HAD ENOUGH & ANNOUNCES RUN FOR 31st CONGRESSIONAL SEAT
PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dateline: January 10, 2016
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PETE AGUILAR [D-FONTANA] GETS TAX CREDITS PAID FOR BY TAKING FUNDS FROM SOCIAL SECURITY – BOB CONAWAY HAS HAD ENOUGH & ANNOUNCES RUN FOR 31st CONGRESSIONAL SEAT
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Consolidated Appropriations Act into H.R. 2029 tax package passed 318-109, with 241 Republicans — virtually the entire GOP Conference — and surprisingly (to some who aren't watching) Congressman Pete Aguilar (CD-31) voted for [with his republican buds Paul Cook (CD-08) and Pete Knight (CD-25)]. So what say some? The bill voted on by Aguilar took $150 billion from the Social Security Trust Fund–WHY???
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So Aguilar’s, Cook’s and Knight’s buds will get tax credits of $622 billion over the next 10 years while our local senior voters get the financial shaft.
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Aguilar, who will get his automatic Congressman's salary raise this year, seems to have forgotten that social security recipients received NO Cost Of Living (C.O.L.A.) increase for 2016 AND the fact that since H.R. 2029 is a TWO YEAR appropriations bill, there will be no cost of living increase in 2017 for Social Security recipients, already facing increases in premium for Part B coverages.
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Bad vote Pete, Paul and Steve. For Pete, bad company to keep and a fraud to those 17% of the registered voters who elected him (the turnout in 2014 was a paltry 34% despite the campaign and its supporters spending $2.2 million to get out the vote).
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The bill republican push for the bill was to lift the longstanding ban to export U.S. oil–too bad Aguilar, Cook and Knight know little about oil exports. Alaskan crude has been shipped to the far east for a long time. With oil at a 10 year low and with our ally Turkey helping ISIS flood the world market with stolen which is further depressing price per barrel, does anyone have a clue what they are doing? Flooding the world market with more oil will bring down the value of energy stocks, upon which many retiree's pensions are based.
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Pete Aguilar’s attack on seniors does not stop there. Pete Aguilar (again joining republican Paul Cook and Steve Knight) voted for H.R. 1470 (also called H.R. 2) which (1) Limits choice of physicians in traditional Medicare, (2) Imposes a deductible that cannot be covered by MediGap Insurance to try and force patients to join a private plan (where there is no control over premium and a limit to the doctors seniors can chose from), (3) raises Medicare’s costs by driving more patients into private Medicare plans [setting up in effect a voucher system, which will be fixed by what Congress wants to pay, leaving increases in premium in the future something for the seniors to pick up].
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Heh, Pete’s, Paul’s and (the other) Pete’s medical coverage are paid for by the taxpayer–what does he care about seniors?
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Seniors can't trust Pete Aguilar. I am a senior. I need to find a way to retire him before he does more damage.
Bob Conaway for Congress
Committee address:
22269 Miramot Road
Apple Valley CA 92308
(760) 617-8305
Dateline: January 10, 2016
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PETE AGUILAR [D-FONTANA] GETS TAX CREDITS PAID FOR BY TAKING FUNDS FROM SOCIAL SECURITY – BOB CONAWAY HAS HAD ENOUGH & ANNOUNCES RUN FOR 31st CONGRESSIONAL SEAT
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Consolidated Appropriations Act into H.R. 2029 tax package passed 318-109, with 241 Republicans — virtually the entire GOP Conference — and surprisingly (to some who aren't watching) Congressman Pete Aguilar (CD-31) voted for [with his republican buds Paul Cook (CD-08) and Pete Knight (CD-25)]. So what say some? The bill voted on by Aguilar took $150 billion from the Social Security Trust Fund–WHY???
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So Aguilar’s, Cook’s and Knight’s buds will get tax credits of $622 billion over the next 10 years while our local senior voters get the financial shaft.
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Aguilar, who will get his automatic Congressman's salary raise this year, seems to have forgotten that social security recipients received NO Cost Of Living (C.O.L.A.) increase for 2016 AND the fact that since H.R. 2029 is a TWO YEAR appropriations bill, there will be no cost of living increase in 2017 for Social Security recipients, already facing increases in premium for Part B coverages.
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Bad vote Pete, Paul and Steve. For Pete, bad company to keep and a fraud to those 17% of the registered voters who elected him (the turnout in 2014 was a paltry 34% despite the campaign and its supporters spending $2.2 million to get out the vote).
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The bill republican push for the bill was to lift the longstanding ban to export U.S. oil–too bad Aguilar, Cook and Knight know little about oil exports. Alaskan crude has been shipped to the far east for a long time. With oil at a 10 year low and with our ally Turkey helping ISIS flood the world market with stolen which is further depressing price per barrel, does anyone have a clue what they are doing? Flooding the world market with more oil will bring down the value of energy stocks, upon which many retiree's pensions are based.
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Pete Aguilar’s attack on seniors does not stop there. Pete Aguilar (again joining republican Paul Cook and Steve Knight) voted for H.R. 1470 (also called H.R. 2) which (1) Limits choice of physicians in traditional Medicare, (2) Imposes a deductible that cannot be covered by MediGap Insurance to try and force patients to join a private plan (where there is no control over premium and a limit to the doctors seniors can chose from), (3) raises Medicare’s costs by driving more patients into private Medicare plans [setting up in effect a voucher system, which will be fixed by what Congress wants to pay, leaving increases in premium in the future something for the seniors to pick up].
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Heh, Pete’s, Paul’s and (the other) Pete’s medical coverage are paid for by the taxpayer–what does he care about seniors?
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Seniors can't trust Pete Aguilar. I am a senior. I need to find a way to retire him before he does more damage.
Bob Conaway for Congress
Committee address:
22269 Miramot Road
Apple Valley CA 92308
(760) 617-8305
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Congressman Paul Cook (CA-08), Steve Knight (CA-25) Increased the Debt by Giving or Reviving Tax Breaks to Special Interest Without Telling Us Where They Will Get the $
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget [http://crfb.org/category/blog-issue-areas/tax-extenders] said about the "Tax Extender Bill" that Congressman Cook just voted for:
"Although lawmakers have been adding to the debt repeatedly for the past few years, the $680 billion tax deal is easily the largest step backwards and is comparable in magnitude to the deficit reduction lawmakers enacted between 2011 and 2013. The deal easily swamps the net savings from the 2013 Ryan-Murray agreement, almost equals the revenue raised in the fiscal cliff agreement, amounts to three-quarters of the sequester savings, and is more than two-thirds of the savings from the Budget Control Act spending caps. ...
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Lawmakers announced a negotiated package of business and individual tax breaks will cost about $680 billion over ten years. After interest, the cost will be closer to $830 billion over ten years.
The deal largely focuses on reviving tax breaks that expired at the end of 2014, making some permanent and extending others for either two or five years. However, it also permanently extends three refundable tax credit expansions that would have expired in 2017, originally enacted in the 2009 stimulus bill. The bill also pauses or delays three taxes from the Affordable Care Act, opening the door to further delays or possible repeal of the taxes, undermining the health care law's deficit-reduction and cost-control efforts. ...
With debt already around its highest level as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) other than around World War II and estimated to grow with no end in sight, the least one could have hoped for from lawmakers would be to stop digging the hole deeper. But 2015 proved even that low bar to be too lofty a goal. ..."
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Paul Cook & Steve Knight's vote for the Tax Extender Bill is unconscionable . Pelosi called it “practically an immorality in terms of ... how it damages the future,” later saying, “These massive giveaways to the special interests and big corporations are deeply destructive to our future." Hoyer called it “extraordinarily irresponsible,” explaining that “it makes almost sure that we will have to continue some type of disinvestment in our country because of lack of resources."
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The tax extender bill is explicitly exempted from the PAYGO rule that requires that every new bit of spending (and tax cuts are certainly a form of spending) be offset.
Republicans want to crush the priorities important to most people in the 25th and 8th Congressional Districts. Republicans want to use the deficit (that they just added to) as a way to demand cuts to programs that they don’t like—those that help the vets and retirees on limited incomes, children, the working poor & middle-class and their families.
"Although lawmakers have been adding to the debt repeatedly for the past few years, the $680 billion tax deal is easily the largest step backwards and is comparable in magnitude to the deficit reduction lawmakers enacted between 2011 and 2013. The deal easily swamps the net savings from the 2013 Ryan-Murray agreement, almost equals the revenue raised in the fiscal cliff agreement, amounts to three-quarters of the sequester savings, and is more than two-thirds of the savings from the Budget Control Act spending caps. ...
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Lawmakers announced a negotiated package of business and individual tax breaks will cost about $680 billion over ten years. After interest, the cost will be closer to $830 billion over ten years.
The deal largely focuses on reviving tax breaks that expired at the end of 2014, making some permanent and extending others for either two or five years. However, it also permanently extends three refundable tax credit expansions that would have expired in 2017, originally enacted in the 2009 stimulus bill. The bill also pauses or delays three taxes from the Affordable Care Act, opening the door to further delays or possible repeal of the taxes, undermining the health care law's deficit-reduction and cost-control efforts. ...
With debt already around its highest level as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) other than around World War II and estimated to grow with no end in sight, the least one could have hoped for from lawmakers would be to stop digging the hole deeper. But 2015 proved even that low bar to be too lofty a goal. ..."
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Paul Cook & Steve Knight's vote for the Tax Extender Bill is unconscionable . Pelosi called it “practically an immorality in terms of ... how it damages the future,” later saying, “These massive giveaways to the special interests and big corporations are deeply destructive to our future." Hoyer called it “extraordinarily irresponsible,” explaining that “it makes almost sure that we will have to continue some type of disinvestment in our country because of lack of resources."
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The tax extender bill is explicitly exempted from the PAYGO rule that requires that every new bit of spending (and tax cuts are certainly a form of spending) be offset.
Republicans want to crush the priorities important to most people in the 25th and 8th Congressional Districts. Republicans want to use the deficit (that they just added to) as a way to demand cuts to programs that they don’t like—those that help the vets and retirees on limited incomes, children, the working poor & middle-class and their families.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Paul Cook's & Steve Knight's H.R.3668 - California Minerals, Off-Road Recreation, and Conservation Act--H.R. 3668 Contains (1) Unfunded Mandates, (2) Giveaways to Corporate Donors, (3) Guts California Sovereignty, (4) Gives Away Use of Public lands without Any Compensation (for starters)--Do Cook & Knight read these Crap Bills?
What does H.R. 3668 really do?
To the superficial envios & off-roaders, it sounds like we get more wilderness areas & off road areas
So what is it really?
1. THE ONLY new areas that have any proviso in the law for acquisition expenses, is Mojave Trails Special Management Area (Sections 603 & 604 of the Bill) and the Sand to Snow National Monument (Section 703 & 704 of the bill)--the problem?? NO funding; this is another Republican unfunded mandate and taking of private lands
2. The "Release of California School Land" strips the California Land Commission of jurisdiction - Problem? Its another Republican use of federal power to strip the State of its sovereignty AND AGAIN, its another unfunded Republican mandate and taking of private property without compensation
3. The "Valid Existing Rights Conversion (Section 807)is a gifting of easements to the power lobby(PG&E, Edison & SoCalifornia Gas)--again the problem (we get no money from them for the USE of our public lands again despite the billions they make--another act of corporate welfare by the Republican police state)
4. Release of Reversionary interest to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (Section 801)--lands which they used, but did not own, Cook's & Knight's bill is giving away in perpetuity, again collecting NOTHING for the use of public lands and water, with NO conservation mandates
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Wow--bad law dudes
Note: Mr. Cook (for himself and Mr. Knight) introduced the bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources-- see full text at https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3668/text?q={%22search%22%3A[%22\%22hr3668\%22%22]}&resultIndex=1#toc-HA80A6C832758444A9F15C22FA2470065.
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