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Ole Uncle Cocaine Mitch is doing all he can to protect his
Posted on: February 20, 2020 at 10:52:44 CT
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"At least one of the scandals facing Chao is tied to the potential use of her cabinet post to bolster McConnell’s political fortunes. Now he is in a position as Majority Leader to protect them both by holding up a permanent replacement at the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
The vacancy at the Department of Transportation (DOT) OIG occurs at a time while Secretary Chao faces significant questions about her ethics and conduct. In May 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported that Secretary Chao’s financial disclosure forms revealed that she retained and significantly profited from shares in Vulcan materials, a supplier of construction materials, more than a year after the date she pledged to divest. She later sold the shares, worth between $250,001 and $500,000. Following public reports that Secretary Chao may have used her post to boost her family’s company’s standing with the Chinese government to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, the House Oversight Committee launched an investigation. Last June, the Government Accountability Office found that the state’s largest transportation grant application under the Trump administration was awarded following a process that lacked “the assurance of fairness.” Most recently, in late 2019, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio requested that OIG review allegations that Secretary Chao afforded McConnell’s constituents special treatment and helped steer millions of federal dollars to Kentucky at a time when he is facing low approval ratings and a tough reelection bid.
If and when the President nominates someone to succeed the recently retired Calvin L. Scovell, III as the permanent DOT IG, that person must face consideration by Leader McConnell’s Senate. The Senate Majority Leader determines the process and timing of floor votes for all Senate-confirmed positions like Inspectors General. As we saw with a Supreme Court nomination, Mitch McConnell is not above stonewalling presidential appointments for political benefit.
Secretary Chao’s conduct suggests that her agency desperately needs an independent Senate-confirmed Inspector General to ensure that OIG’s ongoing investigations are overseen without delay or political pressure. Unfortunately, filling that post is left to a President who rejects accountability and his chief enabler in the Senate who has a vested interest in preventing a fully empowered DOT OIG."
https://www.citizensforethics.org/elaine-chao-mitch-mcconnell-inspector-general/
Edited by MrBlueSky at 10:52:54 on 02/20/20
"At least one of the scandals facing Chao is tied to the potential use of her cabinet post to bolster McConnell’s political fortunes. Now he is in a position as Majority Leader to protect them both by holding up a permanent replacement at the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
The vacancy at the Department of Transportation (DOT) OIG occurs at a time while Secretary Chao faces significant questions about her ethics and conduct. In May 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported that Secretary Chao’s financial disclosure forms revealed that she retained and significantly profited from shares in Vulcan materials, a supplier of construction materials, more than a year after the date she pledged to divest. She later sold the shares, worth between $250,001 and $500,000. Following public reports that Secretary Chao may have used her post to boost her family’s company’s standing with the Chinese government to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, the House Oversight Committee launched an investigation. Last June, the Government Accountability Office found that the state’s largest transportation grant application under the Trump administration was awarded following a process that lacked “the assurance of fairness.” Most recently, in late 2019, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio requested that OIG review allegations that Secretary Chao afforded McConnell’s constituents special treatment and helped steer millions of federal dollars to Kentucky at a time when he is facing low approval ratings and a tough reelection bid.
If and when the President nominates someone to succeed the recently retired Calvin L. Scovell, III as the permanent DOT IG, that person must face consideration by Leader McConnell’s Senate. The Senate Majority Leader determines the process and timing of floor votes for all Senate-confirmed positions like Inspectors General. As we saw with a Supreme Court nomination, Mitch McConnell is not above stonewalling presidential appointments for political benefit.
Secretary Chao’s conduct suggests that her agency desperately needs an independent Senate-confirmed Inspector General to ensure that OIG’s ongoing investigations are overseen without delay or political pressure. Unfortunately, filling that post is left to a President who rejects accountability and his chief enabler in the Senate who has a vested interest in preventing a fully empowered DOT OIG."
https://www.citizensforethics.org/elaine-chao-mitch-mcconnell-inspector-general/
Edited by MrBlueSky at 10:52:54 on 02/20/20
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