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Should get an early indication of just how accommodating the Senate will be when the Judiciary Committee holds hearings on Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for Attorney General. Current members, with most expected to stay. Contact early, contact often.
Chuck Grassley, Iowa, Chairman
Orrin Hatch, Utah
Jeff Sessions, AlabamaLindsey Graham, South Carolina
John Cornyn, Texas
Mike Lee, Utah
Ted Cruz, Texas
Jeff Flake, Arizona
David Vitter, Louisiana
David Perdue, Georgia
Thom Tillis, North Carolina
Patrick Leahy, Vermont, Ranking Member
Dianne Feinstein, California
Chuck Schumer, New York
Dick Durbin, Illinois
Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island
Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
Al Franken, Minnesota
Chris Coons, Delaware
Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut
Great choice.
Bet he has the common sense not to meet the spouse of someone under investigation, even if it is only to talk about grand kids.
Speaking of investigations (leading to civil fraud lawsuits), just announced: Trump agreeds to pay a $1mm fine and $25mm in restitution over Trump University allegations (while admitting no guilt)
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/trump-university.html
Nice.
Geezuz. Step up your game, Carnegie. Who'd have thunk: union contracts, not our POTUS-elect, guiding these decisions?
Donald Trump Says He 'Worked Hard' with Ford to Keep Factory in Kentucky
Apple moving I-phone production back to the US, too.
Seems to me there must be some folks who magically found some skilled labor in the US labor market, or was it political leadership?
Tim Cook had told CBS News’ 60 Minutes in December 2015 that Apple could not move its iPhones production back to the U.S., because America lacked enough skilled workers.
“Let me be clear, China put an enormous focus on manufacturing, in what you and I would call vocational kind of skills,” he said. Cook blamed America for Apple’s need to move production offshore: “The U.S., over time, began to stop having as many vocational kind of skills.”
It seems that since the election of Donald Trump as President, Apple and soon the rest of Silicon Valley may have discovered that America does have enough skilled workers to make high-tech devices.
The reality is that an I-phone which sells for $600 has labor costs of about $12.50 if assembled in China and $25 if assembled in the US. It is not worth it for Apple to fight over the cost savings.
Andrew: guess you missed yesterday's Wall Street Journal article about companies in Maine using legal immigrants now in manufacturing concerns because there aren't enough skilled American workers in Maine.
As for China, they are now losing business to lower cost countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia.
Seems like you’ve also missed various articles about the US not having enough workers skilled in STEM.
It appears that Michael is right about your game being “weak.”
I think we can all agree this would be a good move. GE's story in Kentucky is yet another one. The German's figured out long ago that high-paying union jobs weren't a deterrent to their bottom line, either. I'm anxiously awaiting the Presidential-elects announcement of moving his clothing factories and furniture making back to our shores.
Apple isn't moving anything … they are considering what to do if Trump starts a trade war with excessive tariffs. Part of that is investigating how much of an iPhone would need to be "made" or "assembled" someplace other than China to avoid unsustainable tariffs. In other words, contingency planning. US location might work. I'm betting they are investigating a bunch of other locations, too.
On a lighter note, here is a useful plugin for Chrome browser users. I have already seen that it works as advertised!
Swap Trump For Cheeseburgers With This Genius Google Chrome Extension
“Make the internet fun again.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-cheeseburger-extension_us_5825ce83e4b02d21bbc84e74
Brilliant idea. The head of the Anti Defamation League said that if Trump requires Muslims to register with the government that he would register as a Muslim. Count this atheist in. We are all Muslims now.
Count this Catholic in, too.
Count King Christian of Denmark in on the muslim list.
Count this Quaker apathist in!
Papa Bush gave us the successful cap-and-trade program that ended acid rain; George W. delivered the Renewable Fuel Standard and the Bush Supreme Court declared CO2 a pollutant. We're in the throes of the Third Industrial Revolution. The world isn't looking 'back'…
China to Donald Trump: No, We Didn’t Invent Climate Change
Less than a decade ago our POTUS-elect shared the enthusiasm for a future driven by American technology and ingenuity. He joined other business leaders urging President Obama to lead in a full page ad in the New York Times