Elizabeth Warren hijacks Senate hearing, blasts corporate settlements

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times - Thursday, March 12, 2015

Sen. Elizabeth Warren hijacked a Senate committee hearing on recreational hunting, fishing and shooting Thursday to advance her crusade against big business, calling for new laws to expose the details of legal settlements between the government and corporations accused of wrongdoing.

“I’m going to press forward with this bipartisan proposal in this Congress because far too often the critical details of these settlements are hidden from the public,” declared Ms. Warren, Massachusetts Democrat.

She defended her use of the venue — a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015 — by citing a provision in the bill that would create a public database of fees and awards that the government pays to environmental groups.

“Republicans want more transparency when environmental groups challenge illegal government actions and win. But what about transparency when the government settles claims against corporations that break the law,” she said.

Mrs. Warren, a liberal firebrand who is being prodded by the party’s left wing to enter the 2016 presidential race, was pushing her legislation titled the Truth in Settlements Act, which was introduced last year but was blocked.

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Toon: We're not "scary"..

Have you ever see Los Angeles like this?

Republican slogan's 2008 and 2015..

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. -

WAR MONGER

This is so true!!

Sen. Bernie Sanders walking his grandson to work during the fall of 2013....

Ferguson, Missouri, Police Chief Thomas Jackson Resigns

Source: NBC NEWS

Ferguson, Missouri, Police Chief Thomas Jackson resigned Wednesday, the city announced. He is the latest in a string of city officials ousted in the wake of a Justice Department report that found a culture of racism in the police department and city offices.

Jackson's resignation — which the city said was a "mutual decision" — is effective March 19.

Municipal Judge Ronald Brockmeyer resigned Monday and City Manager John Shaw resigned Tuesday after they were highlighted in the scathing report, which was commissioned after white police officer Darren Wilson, who has since resigned, shot and killed unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown in August. Wilson wasn't charged in the shooting.

Two police officers were suspended and later resigned, and the city's top court clerk was fired.




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John Fugelsang: For Lent I gave up....