Peter DeFazio
@RepPeterDeFazio
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Former Representative of the 4th Congressional District in Oregon Chairman Transportation and Infrastructure Committee 2019-2022
Joined February 2011
RE the Kristie Gnome video in violation of the Hatch Act to be shown at airport check points blaming Democrats for any delays. 🤔. There is A Democrat sponsored bill to pay Air Traffic controllers from the 18 billion dollar Airport Improvement Trust Fund. If “Speaker” Johnson
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Kudos to SW Airlines only accepting new jets with secondary barriers already installed as required by law. I first advocated for hardened cockpit doors and secondary cockpit barriers in the early 90’s after a spate of hijackings. For a little while under pressure UAL installed
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Mike Lee who proposed a huge sell off of federal lands without restrictions in the Big Ugly Bill Now says he withdrew his proposal after a huge outcry from majority R’s Hunting and other groups and R Senators from Western states trying to cover his ass saying he was worried
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So Trump ends trade negotiations with our closest ally Canada because tech company’s would have to pay a tiny fraction of their profits from Canadian business in taxes. For example it would cost Amazon a bit more than the cost of Bezo’s profligate spending on his Venice wedding.
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Trump may want to fire Musk - bad breakup but Musk’s acolytes have control of massive amounts of sensitive govt data giving Musk the upper hand.
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The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul.
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So the first Trump Administration gave Boeing a 3 year deferred prosecution from criminal charges if they agreed to invest heavily and overhaul their safety and production. On January 5th 24 a door plug blew out from a Max. If it had happened at higher altitude it could have
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In 2976 thousands more injured and adverse health effects for First Responders. John Mica chaired the Aviation subcommittee and I was the ranking Democrat. WE created the TSA - the idea being highly trained professional paid a good wage with benefits. The compromise because of
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The Acting Administrator of TSA has a brilliant “new” idea privatization. Before 9/11 passenger screening was privatized - paid for by the airlines. It was the lowest paid entry level job in the airport. McDonald’s was considered a move up and it showed phenomenal turnover, FAA
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Supreme Court denies Kevin McCarthy's challenge to proxy voting in House https://t.co/Rq0tBhShLd via @politico
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The decision marks the final nail in the coffin for challenges to the chamber’s absentee voting procedures prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Well Representative Johnson the R leader said they couldn’t allow birth mothers 12 weeks of proxy voting. I know he was just a backbencher but. Q: What was the result of Kevin McCarthy’s lawsuit alleging proxy voting is unconstitutional A: Kevin McCarthy, the former Speaker of
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Trump has shredded federal worker union rights for nearly 1 million workers. @FlyingWithSara, President of AFA, is speaking out against the billionaire agenda and calling for a general strike to beat them.
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🤔 what is up with the DODGE boys disruption and collecting of ALL our personal date through IRS and Soc SEC.
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Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 03/15/2025 · 32m
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Has every Republican senator and House Member been totally been totally defenestrated. Reported tonight Seattle Times (fake news) that Elon will get a Top Secret SSI briefing on how to respond to China in a armed conflict - of course Elon has many billions of investments totally
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Ok Just read Musk will get briefing on top secret plans for conflict with China from the Pentagon tomorrow. Musk is totally beholden to XiPing for his production and sales of TESLA in China. And of course Trump is courting Putin -the Manchurian candidate 2x.
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He also says Social Security is a magnet for illegals who will not get benefits. Actually the last President who tried to authorize illegals from collecting was George W Bush rejected by congress. Illegals pay in and benefit the trust fund by billions they can never collect. If
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🤔 Elon thinks there are hundreds of billions of fraud in Social Security. Most of the federal spending is entitlements,” Musk told the Fox Business Network. “That’s the big one to eliminate.” The comments on the popular program and other benefits provided to Americans could
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French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.
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🤔 Zelensky was not appropriately dressed for meeting with Trump/Vance. I think I saw Elon in the Oval Office with one of his miscellaneous kids from different women dressed in a t shirt and then there was his appearance at the “cabinet”of 🤡 meeting in a t shirt. Seriously if
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