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Today, Congressmen Mike Turner (OH-3) and Russ Carnahan (MO-3), Co-Chairs of the Historic Preservation Caucus, introduced the bipartisan Rehabilitation of Historic Schools Act (H.R. 6151). The legislation would incentivize private investment to help rehabilitate our country's older K-12 public school buildings.
Congressman Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, released the following statement upon news that an Aerospace Industries Association report found that the impending sequestration cuts will result in the loss of over 2 million American jobs:
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA) and House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Chairman Michael Turner (R-OH) sent a letter Friday to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta expressing concern over the Obama Administration's plans to continue a sharp decline in the attention and resources invested in U.S. national missile defenses.
According to the Letter:
By DANIEL HOWES
July 12, 2012
A House subcommittee investigating how Team Obama decided to foist Delphi Corp.'s salaried pension plan on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. finally got its crack at three former administration officials involved in the decision.
They still won't come clean.
"It's clear from their attitude that they have no interest in telling what happened," U.S. Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, said in an interview Wednesday. "We want to get the pension restored. We believe what they did was wrong and we want to prove it."
Congressman Mike Turner (OH-3) grilled former Auto Task Force officials at the House Oversight and Government Reform's Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services, and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing entitled - The Administration's Auto Bailouts and the Delphi Pension Decisions: Who Picked the Winners and Losers? The hearing follows a May 14th letter sent by Turner requesting a hearing with testimony from those who allegedly made the decisions within the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) that resulted in approximately 20,000 salaried Delphi retirees from across the country taking a severe cut in their pension benefits.
By Matthew Boyle
President Barack Obama's former auto industry adviser and two former Treasury Department officials cracked at the last minute before a House oversight committee subcommittee hearing and agreed to stop stonewalling an investigation into alleged union favoritism during the administration's General Motors bailout.
Congressman Mike Turner and Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, Co-Chairs of the Sexual Assault Prevention Caucus have written to Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley to request an immediate briefing for their Caucus on the widespread sexual assault allegations at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX. This is particularly alarming because it was perpetrated by military training instructors (MTIs) on recruits
Congressman Mike Turner (OH-3) grilled former Auto Task Force officials at the House Oversight and Government Reform's Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services, and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing entitled - The Administration's Auto Bailouts and the Delphi Pension Decisions: Who Picked the Winners and Losers? The hearing follows a May 14th letter sent by Turner requesting a hearing with testimony from those who allegedly made the decisions within the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) that resulted in approximately 20,000 salaried Delphi retirees from across the country taking a severe cut in their pension benefits.
