Barefoot Hiking. White House Gives Chilly Reception to Lieberman’s Citizenship-St. May 6, 2010 6:14pm White House press secretary Robert Gibbs today indicated no one in the White House supports the legislation introduced today by Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., that would give the State Department the power to revoke the citizenship of American terrorism suspects. “I have not heard anybody inside the administration that's been supportive of that idea,” Gibbs said. Gibbs said he had “not heard large enumerations on why, except that I don't think anybody would find that to be such an effective way.” Lieberman offered the legislation today along with Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Reps. In a speech, Lieberman said that Times Square suspect Faisal Shahzad “is just the latest in a growing and accelerating line of cases where U.S. John Bellinger, a legal adviser to the Secretary of State during the Bush administration, told the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein that the Lieberman bill “sounds like a draconian solution.
-jpt. Legislative proposal to revoke citizenship of accused terrorist. The legislation Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced Thursday to strip the citizenship of Americans accused of engaging in terrorism against the United States or its foreign allies is so broadly worded that it may be unconstitutional, two key lawmakers said. "If they're a U.S. citizen, until they're convicted of some crime, I don't know how you would attempt to take their citizenship away," House Republican Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio) told reporters Thursday, according to Bloomberg News.
Sen. "The senator was approached abruptly in the hall of the Capitol by a reporter before he had even heard about the legislation or what it did," Schumer's office said Wednesday. Lieberman cited examples from the accused Times Square bomber to Americans who train with Somali Islamic fundamentalists as he introduced the legislation, which was co-sponsored by Sen. He cited accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal M. The White House was dismissive. Op-Ed Columnist - Congress, Up in Arms. Lost Generation. BP has systematic safety problems: report. BP Cited for Worst OSHA Safety Violations Among U.S. Refiners |
WASHINGTON - May 17 - Two refineries owned by oil giant BP account for 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety inspectors over the past three years, a Center for Public Integrity analysis shows. Most of BP's citations were classified as "egregious willful" by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and reflect alleged violations of a rule designed to prevent catastrophic events at refineries. BP is battling a massive oil well spill in the Gulf of Mexico after an April 20 platform blast that killed 11 workers. But the firm has been under intense OSHA scrutiny since its refinery in Texas City, Texas, exploded in March 2005, killing 15 workers. While continuing its probe in Texas City, OSHA launched a nationwide refinery inspection program in June 2007 in response to a series of fires, explosions and chemical releases throughout the industry.
Of those, 760 were classified as "egregious willful" and 69 were classified as "willful. "