Trump snubs Sen. Casey over bill signing ceremony

[FakeNoose]

Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2018/08/02/Trump-snubs-senator-Bob-Casey-jobs-bill-signing-pennsylvania/stories/201808020117

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 8/2/2018

President Donald Trump invited Democratic and Republican Congress members to watch him sign a jobs-training bill Tuesday but snubbed the U.S. senator from Scranton who worked hard on the legislation.

Sen. Bob Casey, whose election opponent the president will stump for Thursday in Wilkes-Barre, wasn’t invited to the Oval Office to see Trump sign the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act into law, said Jacklin Rhoads, Casey’s deputy communications director.

“While it is disappointing the White House chose to play politics with this bill signing, Sen. Casey is pleased he was able to work in a bipartisan fashion to reauthorize this important legislation for the first time in 12 years, ensuring students and workers have the skills they need to get family-sustaining jobs,” Rhoads said in an emailed statement.

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Casey was the bill’s Democratic co-author. The bipartisan bill aims to overhaul education and training for the first time since 2006 for students interested in technical careers.

By all accounts, Casey, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which oversaw the bill, worked long and hard on the bill. U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, and the committee chairman, credited Casey for working with Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, to come up with a bipartisan compromise.

“They have worked hard to reach a bipartisan result and should receive the recognition they deserve for it,” Alexander said, according to an online transcript of his Senate comments in the Congressional Record. “I would also like to thank Ivanka Trump for her leadership in helping create an environment where we could get a result.”

Rhoads said the White House invited U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, of Washington, the top-ranked Democrat on the HELP committee, but not Casey. Murray did not attend the ceremony, but let Casey know she was invited, Rhoads said.

The president* is scheduled to campaign for Lou Barletta, Casey's GOP opponent, at 7 p.m. tonight in Wilkes-Barre. We're supposed to believe this wasn't politically motivated?

[riversedge]

1. Trump is petty. We all know that.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Everyone can see his true colors.

They flash night and day in the brightest neon shades.

One crack in that tiny, fragile, gas-containing tube, though, and the whole light goes out.

Start chucking those rocks, people!

[blue neen]

3. Has there ever been a bigger jerk than Donald Trump?

No, I don't think so.

[Freddie]

4. Love my Senator!

He's slowly becoming a real force in the Senate with hard work and a quiet calm presence.
Yeah I know he's "pro-life" but unlike his dad (the late Gov. Casey of Casey v PP) I'm pretty sure he's become a Biden-Kaine kind of "pro-life", not willing to impose his opinion on others legislatively. A while back he had a great piece on his FB page praising PP for (among other things) preventing abortions. The comments were a quagmire of hate.
I think Sen. Casey is great running-mate material.

[FakeNoose]

5. Yes he's pro-choice and a Catholic

I can totally relate to this because I was raised Catholic and I'm also pro-choice. Senator Bob Casey and I both agree that it's every woman's right to choose whether to have an abortion or carry to term. However we consider abortion is a wrong choice for ourselves, given our Catholic upbringing, and that's OK too.

[DeminPennswoods]

6. "Pro" life in accordance with the Catholic Social Teachings

That means not just being opposed to abortion, but supporting social services after a baby is born and being opposed to the death penalty.