Posted on 03/12/2017 8:27:10 AM PDT by pabianice
NTSB Chairman Christopher A. Hart spoke in Houston, TX, on February 16, 2017, at the Texas Southern University Monthly Research Seminar, “Transportation Safety: Challenges for Continuing Improvement.” His speech came while the Trump Administration is making big changes to some government agencies, including packing them with political appointees who have no experience and have expressed intentions to cripple the very agencies they’re supposed to be leading.
It’s unknown whether the Trump Administration will seek to undermine the National Transportation Safety Board. In his speech, Hart explained the structure of the NTSB and its traditional insulation from inter- ference by politicians. He said, “The agency is led by five Board Members who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The most important aspect of our independence is that the Members serve fixed terms, and the terms are staggered. Most political appointees, by contrast, serve at the pleasure of the President. In the real world, that means that if the appointee does something that is politically challenging or unpopular, the appointee may be out of a job. Serving in fixed terms helps to insulate Board decisions from lobbying by a manufacturer, an operator, or a union that is dissatisfied with our investigation of an accident that they are involved in.
“In addition, very few political appointees have a substantive knowledge requirement. Our enabling statute, on the other hand, requires that at least three of the five of us have some relevant expertise. Moreover, the statute helps to create party balance by permitting only three of the five of us to be of the same political party as the President.
“The purpose of these requirements is to help ensure that our determinations of causes of acci- dents, and our recommendations to help prevent more accidents, come from the facts and the evi- dence of our investigations, rather than from polit- ical forces or lobbying. The structure that Congress gave us does this very well.”
Uh-huh.
We also don't know whether the Trump administration will seek to outlaw baseball, apple pie and puppies ... but any right-thinking person will be very concerned about the possibilities ...
[It’s unknown whether the Trump Administration will seek to undermine the National Transportation Safety Board.]
Yes, lets throw out another false narrative.
Under what Constitutional authority does the NTSB exist?
So, incompetent, bloated, government morons are afraid the new guy will what? Make them suck more? I don’t think that’s possible.
“Total crap from a political appointee. “....
Yup!
No part of the federal government is “independent”.
How could anyone be dissatisfied with an NTSB investigation? They always do such a good job and leave no stone unturned.
How cute. The NTSB thinks itself the equal of the President.
...Under what Constitutional authority does the NTSB exist...
My guess is the Commerce Clause.
NTSB is FAKE Safety
NTSB Hurts Children
Shut It Down!
Total crap from a communists Democrat.
It is very simple. If the agency has not deserted science and logic and rule of law for political accolades and the genuflection of cronies that agency is safe. It is rather ironic that those who have turned various agencies into whores are worried someone wants to take them out of the gutter.
Leadership is what is required, not so much experience.....
One thing I have learned watching my husbands 27 yr career, from an E-3 to an O-4 in the Navy, is that they have put him in a different job every three years and because of his leadership skills, he learned that job and led his sailors successfully, time after time.
Call me when he actually does something to undermine it. Until then...
There wasn’t independence under Hussein. Just the opposite, in fact.
I sure hope so.
Patriots are reminded that there is no such thing as an independent board of the federal government under the Constitution where domestic policy is concerned.
From related threads ...
In fact, the Founding States made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress (sarc), to clarify the following.
All federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected federal bureaucrats running constitutionally undefined federal regulatory agencies such as the EPA, IRS and NTSB as examples.
So Congress has a constitutional “monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not.
What’s going on is that Congress has wrongly front-ended “government” powers with non-elected bureaucrats. By letting these bureaucrats define domestic policy, lawmakers are able to protect their voting records. And by protecting their voting records, corrupt lawmakers are able to fool low-information patriots, patriots who have never been taught the fed’s constitutional limited powers, into reelecting them.
But what’s even worse regarding federal agencies like the NTSB is the following. Most of the powers that Congress is letting faceless bureaucrats get away with exercising are not constitutionally express federal powers, but state powers that the feds have stolen from the states which the feds use to oppress the states and their citizens.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
As a pilot and a subscriber of NTSB Reporter... I am calling Bullwinckle on this one!
Stick your subscription where the sun doesn’t shine!
Table slapped... I’m OUT!
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