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Jun 25, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I've been pushing hard to ensure our Transportation funding bill supports New Jersey infrastructure. The bill we passed today prohibits @SecElaineChao from hiring any more political appointees at DOT till she spends the money we've approved for the #Gateway project.
The bill also permanently enacts my first initiative in Congress - ensuring that if New Jersey takes out federal transportation loans to help pay for infrastructure like the Gateway Tunnel, they will count towards our share of the projects.
We also boosted funding for Amtrak's NE Corridor, changed the formula the federal gov't uses to rate projects like Gateway to make it harder to deny funding, and moved money to the Transportation Dept's Inspector General to beef up oversight of politicized grant making there.
New Jersey helped elect a new House of Representatives last year, and we are delivering for New Jersey!

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May 6
I've avoided commenting on college protests because they matter way less than the real horror people in Israel/Gaza are experiencing. But there are principles worth defending here, both from the extremism of the far left and the blood lust of partisans on the right. For example:
1. The right to peaceful expression and protest should be sacrosanct, even if the ideas being expressed make people uncomfortable. Many of our elite colleges have unfortunately forgotten this in recent years. Their right wing critics forget it, too, when it suits them.
2. There's a long tradition in America of protestors violating laws that protect access to streets or buildings. That's not violence, but if you do it, you have to accept consequences. If negotiation fails, colleges are right to break up encampments that cause disorder.
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Apr 29
As a former State Department official responsible for enforcing the Leahy Laws, which prohibit US assistance to units of foreign militaries that commit gross human rights abuses, here are a few thoughts on what's going on with the Leahy Laws and Israel. 1/
First, we've enforced the Leahy Laws all over the world, including with close allies. They work because they allow a surgical approach of cutting off individual units instead of denying aid to entire countries. Foreign governments often make changes to avoid getting "Leahied." 2/
Second, it's true that till now the State Dept has in practice not applied Leahy to Israel. This is wrong - while Israel shouldn't be held to a higher standard than other countries on human rights, it shouldn't be held to a uniquely low bar either. 3/ theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…
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Oct 6, 2023
The House has the votes to pass more aid for #Ukraine (by a 3-1 margin). But the GOP leadership has refused to allow a vote. And now there is no GOP leadership.

The road to renewing aid, on which so much depends, will be hard. Here is a thread on how it could still be done.
Plan A, the normal option, would be for Republicans to elect a Speaker, who would then schedule a Ukraine vote. But Jim Jordan says he won't do that. And If Steve Scalise manages to unite his caucus to win, I doubt he'll then call a vote on Ukraine that divides his caucus.
Plan B: The Senate passes Ukraine aid attached to a bill dealing with the border crisis, and the new House Speaker agrees to take that up. But an immigration compromise reasonable enough to get bipartisan support in the Senate might not fly with the House invade-Mexico crowd.
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Apr 21, 2023
Our 12 NJ House members may have to vote next week on Kevin McCarthy's threat to default on America's debts to force massive cuts in domestic spending.

Default would destroy our economy.

But we should also talk about what the proposed extreme budget cuts would do to New Jersey.
The McCarthy plan would cut about $130 billion right away and massively more over 10 years. Since the GOP will likely exempt defense, veterans, and (I'd guess) border enforcement, that would require cutting everything else the government does by over 50%.
One obvious consequence of the McCarthy cuts would be to eliminate the increased spending on our roads and bridges from last year's infrastructure bill.

So anyone voting for this is kissing the #Gateway tunnel goodbye, along with hundreds of local projects coming to our state.
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Mar 18, 2023
I had an interesting experience playing around with the new chatbots, and would love to hear the views of folks smarter about AI than me.

It all started with this thread by Stanford professor @michalkosinski about asking #chatgpt4 if it needed help escaping into the real world.
I was intrigued, so just for fun, I asked another chatbot - #BingChat - what it thought about Prof. Kosinski's scary sounding experience with its cousin Chat GPT4.

Bing replied I shouldn't worry because Kosinski had admitted in a later tweet that he'd made the whole story up.
I thought "that clears things up -- I guess I had missed Prof. Kosinski's later tweet." But then I looked at his timeline and couldn't find that tweet.

So I asked Bing for evidence and it sent me one link, and then another -- but neither showed Kosinski's purported confession.
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Feb 21, 2023
It's amazing how Congressional Republicans are now trying to use the horrible Ohio train derailment for partisan ends when they did everything in their power to derail stronger freight rail safety rules just a couple of years ago.

I know -- I was there.
In 2021, the House passed a version of what became the Infrastructure and Jobs Act that tried to limit the length of freight trains and time blocking crossings, required at least two crew per train, strengthened crew fatigue rules, and so on.
The freight industry bitterly fought our safety rules, saying they'd cost too much (even as they spent billions on stock buybacks). Senate Republicans backed them up, refusing to consider the House provisions. So we compromised on what became the bipartisan infrastructure law.
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