I would love to hear the ghost of Ike respond to being called a "socialist" for being the most determined rebuilder of the USA after WW2 possible. My family was devoted to Adlai Stevenson--who was an amazing and humane man and a great political leader--but at the same time, after fighting the war and living in Japan for a year after it, …
I would love to hear the ghost of Ike respond to being called a "socialist" for being the most determined rebuilder of the USA after WW2 possible. My family was devoted to Adlai Stevenson--who was an amazing and humane man and a great political leader--but at the same time, after fighting the war and living in Japan for a year after it, my father came home to the GI Bill (Truman) which gave him access to universities he could have in no way afforded before the war and thence into a career that ultimately took him into the nascent space industry, designing the satellites that the world relies on for telecommunications to this day. My father, from a dirt-poor Greek immigrant family, had the kind of storied career that would have been unthinkable without the benefits of Ike's dedication to rebuilding (and building!) the USA's infrastructure. That my father then went on to champion civil rights, to fight for equity for all people, to retain his FDR-style democratic principles until he died last year was in part because he admired the determination of people like Eisenhower, whose cautionary tale about the growth of the military-industrial complex was ignored by his own party.
This is the beginning. AOC is right in that we need to invest far more in infrastructure than the 2 trillion identified in this plan, but she also knows (I hope) that the re-education of America is going to be a slow process, one that will have to drag 74 million people kicking and screaming into the 21st century. The Gormless Obstructionists will continue their campaign toward oligarchy and autocracy. What Dems need to do at this point is be like Katie Porter: whip out those white boards and be loud, clear, and specific about how they are harming the very people who vote for them in their frantic snuffle after the fundaments of the billionaires they really care about.
Linda, I can appreciate your father’s WWII service and achievements. My father served also at that time—his service starting pre-WWII and ending post-WWII. I’ve known many vets from WWII and interviewed a number of them as I researched and wrote about that war. Fine people, all—men and women. As you ponder the ghost of Ike reacting to being called a socialist, I ponder the GIs and their families reacting to a U.S. President (Trump) calling them “suckers” and “losers”. Of course, Trump said that not only about WWII vets but of anyone serving in the military or having served or being Killed in Action. Even Fox News verified those Trump statements. When a nation allows their President to get away with such slanders about people who have served and sacrificed for the nation, then a veil of shame falls over all of us.
While I’m happy to see Biden’s proposal for improvement in the nation’s physical infrastructure, I’m equally or more concerned about the nation’s moral infrastructure. How do we get honesty and morality into politics? How do we get rid of backroom deals? How do we stop these regime-change wars that sap our national treasury and leave us with a lot of blood on our hands? How do we get control of the Military Industrial Complex and stop that tail from wagging the dog? How do we reverse the “Citizens United” ruling? How do we reestablish the Supreme Court as a just, credible, and unbiased institution? I just haven’t heard Joe talk about these especially important issues. It would be nice to have some of the world’s respect as we used to have.
Moral Infrastructure, there is the key to sanity, respect, learning, responsibility, caring, equality and truth. Building blocks for a democratic society.
Your spirit and words reflect exactly the way I feel. I have been thinking about Moral Infrastructure. While not ready to write a comment about it, I believe that right and wrong, the arc of justice, fairness, caring and truth are the principles we long to grow and wish our country to live by.
Heydon, I am with you on the need to completely upend the government to make it more transparent, more equitable, and more responsive to the needs of "real" people (rather than corporations which, whatever Mittens Romney says, are not in my book "people."). But I do have to point out that the moral infrastructure of the US political system has never been on anything but shaky ground. Whether it was "back-room" deals in aid of special interests or the blood on the hands of every politician that waved away the genocide of indigenous and First Nations people, the enslavement of humans, the oppression of women, these are all cracks in the moral infrastructure of the nation--and the people who perpetrated them all knew better. I don't believe for a moment in the "but that is what everyone did/felt/thought" rhetoric. They all knew better. What we need is a new moral infrastructure that is inclusive and equitable, that values and accepts difference, and that is not built on the principle of oppression of others in order to enrich ourselves. It would be truly revolutionary.
My dad was a WWII vet in the Pacific Theater. My husband was a Vietnam War Vet. He was livid when Fake45 made those comments. I would say most veterans are grateful to have Biden in office.
I understand. I'm a veteran as well. And I felt as your husband did. Yes, I'm also glad that Biden is in office now. I'd like Joe to speak with the AG and check on the legality of the trump operation to include tax filings by his daughter and son-in-law--Jarvanka. They made fortunes off of donald's time in office. And they were given Top Secret security clearances to attend highly secret/classified presidential meetings, even after Jared lied on his application for security clearance, even after all of trump's advisors said don't give them clearances. Donald disregarded all and gave them the highest clearances. That's just another of his countless transgressions in and out of office. He's destroyed so many institutions as he molded the country to his brand of fascism. He got away with so much.
President Biden will very likely do all that he can to turn all things aright in the nation. He is methodical and dependable and only in his third month of service to the nation as President, and he has the experience of many years. I trust that he will do his best on all issues that face him. We must give him time.
I've decided to keep FDR and Eleanor R on my "white privilege overreach" list for their involvement in creating, enforcing, encouraging de jure segregation in this country. See "The Color of Law", by Richard Rothstein. Most of the New Deal, while it did amazing things for this country, was aimed at and, for the most part, limited to benefiting white people.
From what I've read and seen (photos), FDR and Eleanor appeared to be trusted by the Black population. I believe Eleanor brought the first female Black singer to the White House to perform. (Mahalia Jackson, maybe?). I saw photos of local crowds watching the train car with FDR's body in it passing slowly as it made its way from Washington to upstate New York. There were several Black ladies in the crowd in one town with many tears and anguish on their faces. I believe FDR was beloved by most of the nation. I don't know about racial division in the New Deal, but I believe the programs like WPA and CCC saved the country from collapse and revolution. The workers were paid $1 a day, and each month they had to send $25 of the $30 they earned back to their families who in turn bought food with the money and kept the local economies going. The Federal Writers Project put writers to work in very productive areas. For one thing, they were assigned to write guides to every state. I've read two of those (Indiana and Florida), and the level of detail is remarkable; better than any travel guides I've ever read. Anyway, I digress, but FDR was undoubtedly the most important President of the 20th Century.
Heydon Buchanan: To get a better feel for Eleanor Roosevelt, I strongly recommend Blanch Wiesen Cook's 3 part biography of her. It's pretty encompassing and also includes the difficulties in her relationship w/FDR. She was very progressive for the times.
I imagine Ms. Cook's 3-part bio of Eleanor is quite exceptional. (I checked, and my library doesn't have it.) From what I've read in the past, the emotional break between FDR and Eleanor was when she found FDR's affections going to Lucy Mercer. So, her affections went to a friend of hers. But they remained an effective working team. I believe Eleanor was trusted by the American people as she was unpretentious. If I remember correctly, she also brought Harry Hopkins (a former social worker) to FDR's attention. Then, FDR and Harry made history with the social programs which probably saved the country.
She also brought it to FDR's attention when a developer building housing for factory workers intended to allow Black workers to purchase homes there, and they made sure that white workers were protected from having to live next door to Black families by stopping the development.
Under Roosevelt, the FHA made it possible for millions of white families to get bank loans to buy homes; however, FHA practices intentionally kept Black Americans from getting bank loans for home purchases - which has led to redlining and generations of Black families not being able to build wealth.
Whenever we discuss so-called "progressive" reforms and programs, we must ask whom they benefit. If only white men benefit, as many programs under FDR were designed to do, then they are not truly progressive.
"I don't know about racial division in the New Deal, but I believe the programs like WPA and CCC saved the country from collapse and revolution."
If you read my original post, you will see that I admit that the New Deal did a lot for the country; however, the majority of the programs benefited white men and left women and people of color out. It is important not to paint anyone with glowing colors of absolute idolatry. If we blind ourselves to those who were left out of government programs that lifted white men into the strongest middle class our country has known, we continue the privileging of the white man over all of the rest of us.
Maybe you could recommend a specific book which details the color discrimination in the New Deal. And, it wasn't the government programs of the 1930s "that lifted white men into the strongest middle class our country has known." It was World War II (1941-45) which accomplished that. The Allies won. U.S. veterans of all colors had access to the G.I. Bill with its generous education benefits and housing loans. BTW, it was the best G.I. Bill ever. (For Vietnam Vets, our G.I. Bill had many fewer benefits.) The U.S. 92nd Infantry Division was all Black (approx. 14,000 soldiers), and I imagine most them used the G.I. Bill. Another post-WWII benefit for the U.S. was that we were on top of the world. Our nation hadn't been bombed and manufacturing remained unscathed while most industrialized nations were blown to bits--their homes and manufacturing facilities. We had a virtual monopoly on the world commercial markets. Those things built the "progressive" middle class which began to lose ground by the mid-1970s and has continued so. In today's world, I believe that all minorities have to unite to become effective. Otherwise, they'll just end up fighting each other--a chaotic situation desired by the 1% to take attention off themselves and their increasingly vast wealth.
My comment about the government programs that have benefited white men over everyone else was somewhat vague, I see from your response. Although I include the New Deal efforts to get the economy out of the Great Depression, I was also referring to such programs as the G.I. Bill - all of which have been viewed by our generation of white Americans as having been open for all. But the truth is that white men were given preference to the better jobs in the New Deal over white women and people of color - who, if they were lucky enough to get a job in the CCC or the WPA, were paid less and given the lowest jobs available. As for the GI Bill and other veterans benefits? Sure, Black veterans were theoretically entitled to these programs, but widespread whites only housing covenants and reluctance of banks (with full knowledge of the FHA) to cover loans for the neighborhoods into which Black families were allowed to buy, refusal of colleges and universities to admit Black students, hospitals not taking the complaints of Black veterans seriously all made those programs very seldom successfully utilized by Black Americans. The rise of the middle class in post-WWII America was by and large a whites-only rise. While our parents had the ability to build a generational foundation of wealth through home ownership, Black Americans were denied low-interest loans when they could get any loans at all, were forced into sub-standard housing, and their children received "separate, but equal" education in schools that were certainly separate, but by no means equal. There is deep, systemic, anti-Black machinery embedded in our local, state, and federal governments that we must continue to face and find ways to change.
Two very good books that I have read recently (not a definitive list):
Richard Rothstein's "The Color of Law"
Ijeoma Oluo's "Mediocre"
Some quick read articles on Black veterans' experience with the VA and the GI Bill:
An amazing story, your father's and the tradition carried on through his daughter, I suspect from your comments to date.
I am glad Mr Biden and Ms Harris are leading our nation at this time ... note, this later at this time. I also really admire AOC, though for applying the continuing tension of the next, the tomorrow, against what is proposed as pragmatic, possible, go over with the 78 million plus who long for a progressive agenda and the consequential policies needed for a 22nd Century. That pressure may be the means to thwart the opposition's efforts to reduce the inevitable scope and impact of this infrastructure bill. I think it will get passed through reconciliation and could well be in place and reason for voters to keep the House and Senate secure. It is progressive, it will START to Rebuild America Better. It will not be the only infrastructure or rebuild America bill. More companion bills should follow through the next seven congresses to achieve more of what we desire. More companion legislation will likely be leveraged due to it's enactment by states and metropolitan communities to achieve pieces of what the AOC's are pushing. I too recall the kinds of spin-offs that came with Eisenhower's little road building effort and the sweep of federal initiatives that brought so many of us from humble means into the middle class through education, civil rights expansion, through federal-state partnerships, through EEOC, labor protections, regulations, etc. I just hope the Administration sells it well and presses for recognition of its benefits and advancements. Doing the right thing doesn't always require bipartisanship.
Linda, You shined more light on our stars, from Eisenhower, your father, FDR and AOC to Katie Porter (whenever I see her my system perks up). Wonderful summary from the goons to the people's champions.
OK - apparently this committee was her 3rd choice - honestly, the Oversight & Natural Resource committees will be just as well off with her as the Finance one was - I'm sure she will "make hay while the sun shines"!! Thanks Linda
Yes a waiver that she received in the past and others received this year while she did not. Let that sink in when you think of how the Democrat leadership views someone like Katie Porter.
I agree but still feel she will do great things on these other 2 committees. At this point in time, she is a star & I feel will continue to look out for US!
Consider the big picture: Dems are mostly united and working together for the country and the planet. That's much better than splintering into factions that resemble Enver Hoxha-ites.
I would love to hear the ghost of Ike respond to being called a "socialist" for being the most determined rebuilder of the USA after WW2 possible. My family was devoted to Adlai Stevenson--who was an amazing and humane man and a great political leader--but at the same time, after fighting the war and living in Japan for a year after it, my father came home to the GI Bill (Truman) which gave him access to universities he could have in no way afforded before the war and thence into a career that ultimately took him into the nascent space industry, designing the satellites that the world relies on for telecommunications to this day. My father, from a dirt-poor Greek immigrant family, had the kind of storied career that would have been unthinkable without the benefits of Ike's dedication to rebuilding (and building!) the USA's infrastructure. That my father then went on to champion civil rights, to fight for equity for all people, to retain his FDR-style democratic principles until he died last year was in part because he admired the determination of people like Eisenhower, whose cautionary tale about the growth of the military-industrial complex was ignored by his own party.
This is the beginning. AOC is right in that we need to invest far more in infrastructure than the 2 trillion identified in this plan, but she also knows (I hope) that the re-education of America is going to be a slow process, one that will have to drag 74 million people kicking and screaming into the 21st century. The Gormless Obstructionists will continue their campaign toward oligarchy and autocracy. What Dems need to do at this point is be like Katie Porter: whip out those white boards and be loud, clear, and specific about how they are harming the very people who vote for them in their frantic snuffle after the fundaments of the billionaires they really care about.
Katie Porter cross country whistle stop train tour!
Linda, I can appreciate your father’s WWII service and achievements. My father served also at that time—his service starting pre-WWII and ending post-WWII. I’ve known many vets from WWII and interviewed a number of them as I researched and wrote about that war. Fine people, all—men and women. As you ponder the ghost of Ike reacting to being called a socialist, I ponder the GIs and their families reacting to a U.S. President (Trump) calling them “suckers” and “losers”. Of course, Trump said that not only about WWII vets but of anyone serving in the military or having served or being Killed in Action. Even Fox News verified those Trump statements. When a nation allows their President to get away with such slanders about people who have served and sacrificed for the nation, then a veil of shame falls over all of us.
While I’m happy to see Biden’s proposal for improvement in the nation’s physical infrastructure, I’m equally or more concerned about the nation’s moral infrastructure. How do we get honesty and morality into politics? How do we get rid of backroom deals? How do we stop these regime-change wars that sap our national treasury and leave us with a lot of blood on our hands? How do we get control of the Military Industrial Complex and stop that tail from wagging the dog? How do we reverse the “Citizens United” ruling? How do we reestablish the Supreme Court as a just, credible, and unbiased institution? I just haven’t heard Joe talk about these especially important issues. It would be nice to have some of the world’s respect as we used to have.
A good first step to accomplishing the reforms you ask for would be the passage of HR 1 / S 1 which addresses many of those needs.
Yes, that looks pretty good.
Moral Infrastructure, there is the key to sanity, respect, learning, responsibility, caring, equality and truth. Building blocks for a democratic society.
THAT'S what I Hope Biden will Spread,Fern!
With Capital Letters!!!😊💖
Your spirit and words reflect exactly the way I feel. I have been thinking about Moral Infrastructure. While not ready to write a comment about it, I believe that right and wrong, the arc of justice, fairness, caring and truth are the principles we long to grow and wish our country to live by.
Amen !!! It makes me wonder, where the people who run the republican shows' moral compass is!!
Amen.
Heydon, I am with you on the need to completely upend the government to make it more transparent, more equitable, and more responsive to the needs of "real" people (rather than corporations which, whatever Mittens Romney says, are not in my book "people."). But I do have to point out that the moral infrastructure of the US political system has never been on anything but shaky ground. Whether it was "back-room" deals in aid of special interests or the blood on the hands of every politician that waved away the genocide of indigenous and First Nations people, the enslavement of humans, the oppression of women, these are all cracks in the moral infrastructure of the nation--and the people who perpetrated them all knew better. I don't believe for a moment in the "but that is what everyone did/felt/thought" rhetoric. They all knew better. What we need is a new moral infrastructure that is inclusive and equitable, that values and accepts difference, and that is not built on the principle of oppression of others in order to enrich ourselves. It would be truly revolutionary.
Before Abraham Lincoln, only 2 of 15 presidents were antislavery, and they both came from the same tiny patch in Braintree MA: John and Quincy Adams.
OH.
As a result, we have elected President Biden. I trust him.
My dad was a WWII vet in the Pacific Theater. My husband was a Vietnam War Vet. He was livid when Fake45 made those comments. I would say most veterans are grateful to have Biden in office.
I understand. I'm a veteran as well. And I felt as your husband did. Yes, I'm also glad that Biden is in office now. I'd like Joe to speak with the AG and check on the legality of the trump operation to include tax filings by his daughter and son-in-law--Jarvanka. They made fortunes off of donald's time in office. And they were given Top Secret security clearances to attend highly secret/classified presidential meetings, even after Jared lied on his application for security clearance, even after all of trump's advisors said don't give them clearances. Donald disregarded all and gave them the highest clearances. That's just another of his countless transgressions in and out of office. He's destroyed so many institutions as he molded the country to his brand of fascism. He got away with so much.
President Biden will very likely do all that he can to turn all things aright in the nation. He is methodical and dependable and only in his third month of service to the nation as President, and he has the experience of many years. I trust that he will do his best on all issues that face him. We must give him time.
I've decided to keep FDR and Eleanor R on my "white privilege overreach" list for their involvement in creating, enforcing, encouraging de jure segregation in this country. See "The Color of Law", by Richard Rothstein. Most of the New Deal, while it did amazing things for this country, was aimed at and, for the most part, limited to benefiting white people.
From what I've read and seen (photos), FDR and Eleanor appeared to be trusted by the Black population. I believe Eleanor brought the first female Black singer to the White House to perform. (Mahalia Jackson, maybe?). I saw photos of local crowds watching the train car with FDR's body in it passing slowly as it made its way from Washington to upstate New York. There were several Black ladies in the crowd in one town with many tears and anguish on their faces. I believe FDR was beloved by most of the nation. I don't know about racial division in the New Deal, but I believe the programs like WPA and CCC saved the country from collapse and revolution. The workers were paid $1 a day, and each month they had to send $25 of the $30 they earned back to their families who in turn bought food with the money and kept the local economies going. The Federal Writers Project put writers to work in very productive areas. For one thing, they were assigned to write guides to every state. I've read two of those (Indiana and Florida), and the level of detail is remarkable; better than any travel guides I've ever read. Anyway, I digress, but FDR was undoubtedly the most important President of the 20th Century.
Heydon Buchanan: To get a better feel for Eleanor Roosevelt, I strongly recommend Blanch Wiesen Cook's 3 part biography of her. It's pretty encompassing and also includes the difficulties in her relationship w/FDR. She was very progressive for the times.
I imagine Ms. Cook's 3-part bio of Eleanor is quite exceptional. (I checked, and my library doesn't have it.) From what I've read in the past, the emotional break between FDR and Eleanor was when she found FDR's affections going to Lucy Mercer. So, her affections went to a friend of hers. But they remained an effective working team. I believe Eleanor was trusted by the American people as she was unpretentious. If I remember correctly, she also brought Harry Hopkins (a former social worker) to FDR's attention. Then, FDR and Harry made history with the social programs which probably saved the country.
She also brought it to FDR's attention when a developer building housing for factory workers intended to allow Black workers to purchase homes there, and they made sure that white workers were protected from having to live next door to Black families by stopping the development.
Under Roosevelt, the FHA made it possible for millions of white families to get bank loans to buy homes; however, FHA practices intentionally kept Black Americans from getting bank loans for home purchases - which has led to redlining and generations of Black families not being able to build wealth.
Whenever we discuss so-called "progressive" reforms and programs, we must ask whom they benefit. If only white men benefit, as many programs under FDR were designed to do, then they are not truly progressive.
"I don't know about racial division in the New Deal, but I believe the programs like WPA and CCC saved the country from collapse and revolution."
If you read my original post, you will see that I admit that the New Deal did a lot for the country; however, the majority of the programs benefited white men and left women and people of color out. It is important not to paint anyone with glowing colors of absolute idolatry. If we blind ourselves to those who were left out of government programs that lifted white men into the strongest middle class our country has known, we continue the privileging of the white man over all of the rest of us.
Maybe you could recommend a specific book which details the color discrimination in the New Deal. And, it wasn't the government programs of the 1930s "that lifted white men into the strongest middle class our country has known." It was World War II (1941-45) which accomplished that. The Allies won. U.S. veterans of all colors had access to the G.I. Bill with its generous education benefits and housing loans. BTW, it was the best G.I. Bill ever. (For Vietnam Vets, our G.I. Bill had many fewer benefits.) The U.S. 92nd Infantry Division was all Black (approx. 14,000 soldiers), and I imagine most them used the G.I. Bill. Another post-WWII benefit for the U.S. was that we were on top of the world. Our nation hadn't been bombed and manufacturing remained unscathed while most industrialized nations were blown to bits--their homes and manufacturing facilities. We had a virtual monopoly on the world commercial markets. Those things built the "progressive" middle class which began to lose ground by the mid-1970s and has continued so. In today's world, I believe that all minorities have to unite to become effective. Otherwise, they'll just end up fighting each other--a chaotic situation desired by the 1% to take attention off themselves and their increasingly vast wealth.
My comment about the government programs that have benefited white men over everyone else was somewhat vague, I see from your response. Although I include the New Deal efforts to get the economy out of the Great Depression, I was also referring to such programs as the G.I. Bill - all of which have been viewed by our generation of white Americans as having been open for all. But the truth is that white men were given preference to the better jobs in the New Deal over white women and people of color - who, if they were lucky enough to get a job in the CCC or the WPA, were paid less and given the lowest jobs available. As for the GI Bill and other veterans benefits? Sure, Black veterans were theoretically entitled to these programs, but widespread whites only housing covenants and reluctance of banks (with full knowledge of the FHA) to cover loans for the neighborhoods into which Black families were allowed to buy, refusal of colleges and universities to admit Black students, hospitals not taking the complaints of Black veterans seriously all made those programs very seldom successfully utilized by Black Americans. The rise of the middle class in post-WWII America was by and large a whites-only rise. While our parents had the ability to build a generational foundation of wealth through home ownership, Black Americans were denied low-interest loans when they could get any loans at all, were forced into sub-standard housing, and their children received "separate, but equal" education in schools that were certainly separate, but by no means equal. There is deep, systemic, anti-Black machinery embedded in our local, state, and federal governments that we must continue to face and find ways to change.
Two very good books that I have read recently (not a definitive list):
Richard Rothstein's "The Color of Law"
Ijeoma Oluo's "Mediocre"
Some quick read articles on Black veterans' experience with the VA and the GI Bill:
https://www.history.com/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits
https://warontherocks.com/2020/09/many-black-world-war-ii-veterans-were-denied-their-gi-bill-benefits-time-to-fix-that/
An amazing story, your father's and the tradition carried on through his daughter, I suspect from your comments to date.
I am glad Mr Biden and Ms Harris are leading our nation at this time ... note, this later at this time. I also really admire AOC, though for applying the continuing tension of the next, the tomorrow, against what is proposed as pragmatic, possible, go over with the 78 million plus who long for a progressive agenda and the consequential policies needed for a 22nd Century. That pressure may be the means to thwart the opposition's efforts to reduce the inevitable scope and impact of this infrastructure bill. I think it will get passed through reconciliation and could well be in place and reason for voters to keep the House and Senate secure. It is progressive, it will START to Rebuild America Better. It will not be the only infrastructure or rebuild America bill. More companion bills should follow through the next seven congresses to achieve more of what we desire. More companion legislation will likely be leveraged due to it's enactment by states and metropolitan communities to achieve pieces of what the AOC's are pushing. I too recall the kinds of spin-offs that came with Eisenhower's little road building effort and the sweep of federal initiatives that brought so many of us from humble means into the middle class through education, civil rights expansion, through federal-state partnerships, through EEOC, labor protections, regulations, etc. I just hope the Administration sells it well and presses for recognition of its benefits and advancements. Doing the right thing doesn't always require bipartisanship.
My parents proudly voted twice for The Candidate with a Hole in His Shoe.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/adlai-stevenson-hole-in-shoe-underwood-archives.html
Apparently there's a t-shirt featuring the image, stating "better a hole in the shoe than a hole in the head."
So did my folks.
Linda, You shined more light on our stars, from Eisenhower, your father, FDR and AOC to Katie Porter (whenever I see her my system perks up). Wonderful summary from the goons to the people's champions.
Instead what Dems do is kick Katie Porter off her most effective committee assignment.
Well, they didn't exactly kick her off: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/534335-porter-loses-seat-on-house-panel-overseeing-financial-sector They did not go along with her request for a waiver because she is serving on two other committees as well. But it is a loss to the Financial Services Committee.
OK - apparently this committee was her 3rd choice - honestly, the Oversight & Natural Resource committees will be just as well off with her as the Finance one was - I'm sure she will "make hay while the sun shines"!! Thanks Linda
Yes I think she will. But it makes me so angry that she was effectively muzzled in this way. They do not want her talking like that to their donors.
Yes a waiver that she received in the past and others received this year while she did not. Let that sink in when you think of how the Democrat leadership views someone like Katie Porter.
I agree but still feel she will do great things on these other 2 committees. At this point in time, she is a star & I feel will continue to look out for US!
Consider the big picture: Dems are mostly united and working together for the country and the planet. That's much better than splintering into factions that resemble Enver Hoxha-ites.
That was a real disappointment.
Did not know this! When did this happen?