Cummings questions White House about Conway's private jet travels

[demmiblue]

Source: Politico

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee wants the White House to provide details of private jet flights that counselor Kellyanne Conway took with former HHS Secretary Tom Price, who resigned last week in the wake of a scandal over his use of charter planes for official business.

Conway took several trips with Price on charter jets that were related to the administration's efforts to fight the opioid epidemic, a POLITICO investigation found. In a letter to the White House, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) asked that Conway provide documents related to all non-commercial flights she's taken since joining the administration.

Cummings is also seeking proof that Price paid back his portion of travel costs, which he vowed to do just one day before he resigned under pressure from President Donald Trump.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/04/white-house-kellyanne-conways-private-jet-travels-243447

[George II]

1. When was Conway confirmed by Congress?

[procon]

2. JetGate won't stop. Is anyone checking how Trump's kids are traveling

when they go off on their many pleasure and leisure junkets? Trump has surrounded himself with a lot of so called advisors without any legitimate job titles; what are their modes of travel... other than Flying Monkeys, broomsticks and the royal barge rowed by slaves?

[FakeNoose]

3. Has anybody told these people about Skype?

You don't have to fly across the country and have face-to-face meetings any more.
You can stay in your office and Skype it, and it works just as well. Saves the txpayers millions of dollars.
Video-conferencing saves time and money, isn't that what Trump wants?

[Grammy23]

4. And you dont lose the face to face cues that are important to communications.

I am retired now, but I very well remember the drudgery of “conference calls”that were faceless. Just voices on the line. We could doodle, file our nails, eat lunch, etc without anyone being the wiser. Make faces, too! I had one boss who despised those calls and he often got up, left the room to take a potty break, returned to the call without missing a thing, except maybe endless chit chat or bickering.

With Skype or FaceTime, you are all pretty much in the same room. The number of face to face meetings went down once conference calls became the norm. I would have thought that Skype or FaceTime would have only made the need for face to face meetings go down further. Everyone wants to cut costs. Isn’t that one good way?

[IronLionZion]

5. They are saving tax dollars

by cutting essential benefits and services. They need private jets to help them see first hand who they should screw over the most

[brush]

7. Or who to screw on the private jet.

[maxrandb]

6. Remember the fucking non-stop hay

They made out of a fucking non-story like Travelgate?