Public has the rightto see Gaetz report
Re: “Lawmakers demand ethics report on Gaetz” (Web page A4, Nov. 15).
We as taxpayers fund the Congress and their employees and, except it’s a matter of nationwide safety, we should see their findings.
The Home Ethics Fee ought to launch the Matt Gaetz report as a result of we paid for it.
Gary ZegaMonte Sereno
Urge Congress to keepIRA local weather positive factors
Re: “Biden visits Amazon rainforest, vows progress for clean energy will prevail” (Web page A4, Nov. 18).
President Biden’s journey to the Amazon demonstrates a U.S. dedication to the clear power revolution, which Biden has fostered throughout his time period.
As we transition to a brand new administration, Mr. Trump has stated he desires to rescind the payouts from previous local weather laws. Such actions would actually be a disgrace. Funding of unpolluted power, notably from the Inflation Discount Act (IRA), is boosting improvement of unpolluted power in all its varieties and creating good jobs for the U.S. labor power. Many of those new jobs are in Republican districts and that’s the reason motion on local weather change needs to be sought by each events. Folks in crimson states profit simply as a lot as these in blue states, and promotion of unpolluted power applied sciences will increase power efficiencies and lowers the price of power.
Write your members of Congress and urge them to maintain the IRA and different local weather laws in place.
Rob HogueMenlo Park
Media ought to elevatepolitical literacy
Re: “Trump’s cabinet selections divisive” (Web page A1, Nov. 17).
The very last thing that I need to learn concerning the new MAGA political order is the opinion of a tattoo parlor proprietor in Florida who believes that the present cupboard picks are on par with the work of Picasso. Misplaced on the tattoo artist is the truth that the Spanish Civil Conflict and WWI had an infinite affect on Picasso.
Dave ClarkSan Mateo
Trump has not earnedtraditional courtesies
Re: “Biden to Trump: ‘Welcome back’” (Web page A1, Nov. 14).
This assembly was not vital, nor did it serve any nationwide curiosity or function. President Biden and Vice President Harris had already exercised one of the vital sacred duties of their workplace: acknowledging the election outcomes and authorizing the switch of energy. Donald Trump did not train this similar oath after his defeat in 2020.
Trump didn’t earn the courtesy and respect that he failed to increase to President-elect Biden 4 years in the past, despite the fact that President Obama prolonged this courtesy to Trump after his 2016 election victory over Hilary Clinton
This isn’t a political matter; it’s a matter of proper vs. unsuitable. An individual who has damaged a sacred bipartisan presidential custom mustn’t profit from that custom. Trump was a no-show at Biden’s inauguration despite the fact that Biden and the previous presidents besides Jimmy Carter attended Trump’s in 2017. Biden and the previous presidents ought to return the favor in January.
Robert ChaykinSan Jose
Senate should not confirmRFK Jr. as HHS chief
Re: “Trump picks RFK Jr. to lead Dept. of Health and Human Services” (Web page A1, Nov. 15).
The Senate mustn’t affirm Donald Trump’s absurd nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to move the Division of Well being and Human Providers, given his background of preventing vaccines and fluoridation of water, and his false claims about autism, treating COVID with hydroxychloroquine, the advantages of uncooked milk, and so on. I used to be a Peace Corps volunteer in India on Nov. 22, 1963, educating math and science. I’m certain that each John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy are rolling over of their graves at having a namesake who’s a kook.
Trump praised RFK Jr., saying, “More than anybody that I know of, he’s had an open mind.” If Trump have been wiser he would know Groucho Marx’s recommendation: “Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out.” Thus far each one in every of Trump’s nominations has been poor, however that of RFK Jr. is ridiculous.
Peter RossSan Jose
