Res. to request info on Trump-Russia likely to be buried

From Rep. Nadler's website, 2017/02/24: http://nadler.house.gov/press-release/nadler-calls-out-republicans-trying-bury-debate-resolution-inquiry

"First, House Republicans chose to consider this resolution in committee—as opposed to allowing debate on the House floor—because they would prefer that only a few of their safest members be forced to take a vote on this matter. The Majority must decide between conducting basic oversight of President Trump, on the one hand, or being complicit in potential misdeeds by Trump and his associates, on the other."

"Second, committee leadership has scheduled the markup for Tuesday in an obvious attempt to bury our debate in the heavy media coverage of President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress."

The Chairman of the committee used the equivalent of lorem ispum to introduce an amendment to the resolution. If I follow, the idea is that the amendment would require debate - another way to cut off debate on the resolution itself.

"Chairman Goodlatte also gave notice of an amendment in the nature of a substitute to my resolution, with wording virtually identical to H. Res. 111. That amendment only exists as a threat to cut off debate on the underlying resolution. I urge the Chairman not to break from the longstanding practice of the House Judiciary Committee, and to allow a full debate on the resolution of inquiry."

"Members of Congress have an obligation to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch."

Perhaps not all is lost. Also from 2017/02/24: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sd-me-issa-maher-20170224-story.html

"Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, said on Friday that a special prosecutor needs to lead an investigation into the alleged ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s regime."

Alas, this is just talk, not actual legislative action.

President Of Audi Of America Tells Dealers To Embrace Plug-In Electric Vehicles | CleanTechnica

President Of Audi Of America Tells Dealers To Embrace Plug-In Electric Vehicles | CleanTechnica:

""And [Keogh] advised them to start thinking now about opportunities to earn money around battery-electric vehicles to offset the lower service and parts revenue they will provide.""

"Interestingly, Keogh also mentioned that he thought widespread price discounting was setting up dealers for future problems. The loss accompanying price discounting is typically being recovered by service and parts revenue, something that won’t persist into a future with strong plug-in sales."

Trump Has Already Blown It | Foreign Policy

Selected quotes from Trump Has Already Blown It | Foreign Policy:

"After telling us that he knows “much more” than the generals, his “secret plan” for dealing with the Islamic State turns out to be “ask the Defense Department to come up with one,” as if nobody at the Pentagon had given any thought to the matter."

"And all the while Trump and his surrogates continue to demonize anyone with the temerity to disagree with Fearless Leader or to question his infallibility, in a matter more reminiscent of Mussolini, Stalin, or the Kim family in North Korea than of Washington, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, or any of Trump’s other predecessors in the Oval office."

"It takes a danger of considerable magnitude to get realists and neoconservatives to agree on anything, but we agree on Trump."

"Which raises the obvious question: Why is he acting this way?"

"[a third possibility] Instead of recognizing America’s remarkable strengths and security and many unique virtues, the Breitbart worldview that has infested the White House believes it has to destroy our current democracy in order to save it."

Here's how incredibly difficult it is for a refugee to get admitted to the US - Vox

Here's how incredibly difficult it is for a refugee to get admitted to the US - Vox:

"Trump’s refugee suspension is a solution in search of a problem"

"The intense investigation that Almshhad underwent in order to be admitted to the US was not unusual. The arduous vetting process involves investigations by a coordinated network of US law enforcement and intelligence agencies, all actively looking for any indication that an individual could potentially pose a threat in the future."

US Clean Energy Jobs Surpass Fossil Fuel Jobs | CleanTechnica

This CleanTechnica post uses a broad definition to sweep jobs into the "clean energy" category. I wish it had considered jobs related to energy efficiency separately. Even so, it appears from the summary that:

• electricity production from clean energy sources employs more people (350,000) than does production from fossil fuel sources (200,000)
• the number of jobs in the clean electric industry is growing, whereas fossil fuel jobs are declining slightly

US Clean Energy Jobs Surpass Fossil Fuel Jobs By 5 To 1 | CleanTechnica

"More than 350,000 people last year worked in part or in whole on solar energy production ... exceeds the combined employment of coal, gas, and oil workers connected with producing electricity that reached just under 200,000. "

"All told, nearly 1 million Americans are working near- or full-time in the energy efficiency, solar, wind, and alternative vehicles sectors. This is almost five times the current employment in the fossil fuel electric industry, which includes coal, gas, and oil workers. "