NJ senators hold up FAA administrator's confirmation (Winging It)

NJ senators hold up FAA administrator's confirmation

New Jersey's U.S; senators, Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg, are unhappy with the Federal Aviation Administration for, among other things, the airspace redesign plan that has meant more aircraft noise over areas near PHL and Newark airports. The lawmakers today said they would use a parliamentary device called a hold and held up confirmation of Bobby Sturgell to be FAA administrator. Read more here.

Posted by Tom Belden on February 7, 2008 6:05 PM | Permalink

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YHS:

Right. .Let's hold up the appointment of a FAA adminstrator .Good Call senators.. I'm sure that there is more important things for you to do.. How about getting an autograph from Roger Clemens or Michael Vick or, hey how about Mr. Bonds That should occupy your time?
NOW ALL YOU FOLKS KNOW WHY CONGRESS DOES NOT WORK..

Posted by YHS | February 7, 2008 8:39 PM

Posted on February 7, 2008 20:39

John J. Tormey III, Esq.:

Citizens in Rockland County, New York – as well as citizens in New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, and elsewhere – were mouth-agape aghast while watching “Bobby” Sturgell’s evasive and false under-oath testimony and answers today on February 7, 2008, to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. We have thanked Congress for making Mr. Sturgell’s webcast testimony and the proceedings available to all of us, real-time, and now archived, through RealPlayer software, on the Senate website.

“Bobby” Sturgell arrogantly insulted Senators Boxer, McCaskill, and Lautenberg – among all of the rest of us - with his persistent utter refusal to answer the most simple of direct “Yes or No” questions. Sturgell made Watergate conspirators sound like they testified on sodium pentothal, by comparison. Senator McCaskill asked the core essential question: “Do you think air traffic controller fatigue was a contributing factor[?]” to runway incursion mishaps – and the slipperiest of eels, the eel of Sturgell, the Sturg-eel – sought to squirm away with the scripted slime of non-answers.

“Bobby” Sturgell, acting FAA head for three months, testified that he had no prior knowledge of the San Diego aircraft near-miss a few weeks ago?

LIE.

Sturgell testified that he had no prior knowledge of recent Newark, NJ departures flying out in the wrong direction in the past few weeks?

LIE.

“Bobby” Sturgell’s nomination as proposed FAA Administrator should not be confirmed. Instead, after he first personally apologizes to Senators Boxer, McCaskill, and Lautenberg, “Bobby” Sturgell should then be INDICTED - for contempt of Congress, for rendering perjured testimony under oath, and for already putting millions of otherwise-innocent and unsuspecting Americans in harm’s way. I have now faxed every Senator on the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, asking them to please refer this matter to the AG, IG, GAO, and a Special Prosecutor – and to please now cook this eel.

John J. Tormey III, Esq.

Posted by John J. Tormey III, Esq. | February 8, 2008 5:55 PM

Posted on February 8, 2008 17:55

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