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House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials

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Pete Bennett asking Congressman Mark DeSaulnier for Constituent Services for about nine years?

The Congressman once was the owner of TRs Bar and Grill, he has known me since I built Hobies Roadhouse on Mt. Diablo Street, same block in the early days of Concord's revitalization

This link is about Mark, the Mark you don't know and the murders of my witnesses, friends in tech and arson cases.

Marks Untold Story?

Heavily tied to AFL-CIO and Contra Costa Politics

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Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials

The Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials has jurisdiction over the economic and safety regulation of railroads and the agencies that administer those regulations.  Economic regulation is administered by the five-member Surface Transportation Board (STB).  This independent agency also has the authority to address national emergencies as they affect the nation’s rail transportation system.
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is responsible for administering and overseeing railroad safety laws, railroad infrastructure and development programs, performing research and developing technology, and has federal oversight of Amtrak.
Amtrak is the nation’s major provider of intercity passenger rail service.  Also known as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Amtrak was established by law in 1970 and assumed the responsibility from private sector railroads for providing passenger rail services.  The Subcommittee continues to oversee efforts to increase efficiency and improve service in Amtrak’s operations.
The Subcommittee also has jurisdiction over the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, which is responsible for providing regulations and safety oversight of pipelines and pipeline facilities, as well as overseeing the transportation of hazardous materials.
Railroad retirement benefits and unemployment systems, as well as rail labor relations also fall under the jurisdiction of this subcommittee.
Issues and agencies under the jurisdiction of the Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee include:
  • Economic regulation of railroads
  • Surface Transportation Board (STB)
  • Railroad safety, including safety practices, equipment, and reporting
  • Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
  • Railroad development programs, such as high-speed rail research and development
  • Rail infrastructure programs
  • Rail security
  • Amtrak
  • Amtrak Inspector General
  • Northeast Corridor Infrastructure and Operations Advisory Commission
  • Railroad retirement (regarding the benefit aspects) and unemployment
  • Railroad Retirement Board, which administers the retirement and unemployment programs unique to railroads
  • Railroad Retirement Board Inspector General
  • National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust
  • Railway Labor Act
  • The National Mediation Board, which administer the Railway Labor Act
  • Federal Employers’ Liability Act, which is the railroad worker-compensation statute
  • Hazardous materials transportation
  • Pipeline transportation safety
  • Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)



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Congressmen Mark DeSaulnier and the Home Invasion Robbery - A case for child abuse




Dear Constituents and Readers.

The above collage is my rolling tragedy where my elected officials have gone out of their way in their attempts to eliminate me.  Every face is a story linked to my story but every call made to Congressman Mark DeSaulnier falls on his very deaf ears.

I have colorful and tragic history connected to Congressman Mark DeSaulnier.  I was was once a heavy drinker in his bar.  We met in 1981 when I built a bar called Hobies Roadhouse.  Concord was a different City then.  There was a rough and tumble crowd near downtown off Sixth Street, there urban sprawl out to Clayton CA and the Lynching of Timothy Lee in the County of Suicides, Cover-ups and viscous political plays.

IN the coming days I am filing a claim with Diablo Valley College over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) meeting held on the DVC Campus.  Arriving early left a wide open clear space where the first row was empty.

Within minutes the College Police were called then later I was escorted out during a conversation with the President of DVC where we were discussing the murder of John T. Nejedly.

I know that Former Concord Officer Foley time as Concord Officer overlaps Congressman DeSaulnier business and political career that he and Foley would have met.

Too bad for the FBI I know enough about the CNET Scandal to know that anyone serving in SWAT would know Commander Norman Wielsch now inmate Wielsch sitting in Federal Prison.









1988 – 1991: Concord City Planning Commission
1991 – 1994: Concord City Councilmember
             1993: Mayor of Concord
1994 – 2006: Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors
1997 – 2006: California Air Resources Board
1996 – 2006: Association of Bay Area Governments
1996 – 2006: Bay Area Air Quality Management District
1996 – 2006: Metropolitan Transportation Commission
2006 – 2008: California State Assembly
2008 – 2014: California State Senate
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H-1B lottery’s game of chance is legal, judge rules

Pete Bennett was once the leading Grass Roots Activist on the H-1b Visa
He learned like Ambassador Stevens that Clinton Murders swirling around the
Clinton Department of State is corrupt, murderous.
Someone got Bennett good by
murdering his relatives

MEET MY DEAD RELATIVES 

H-1B lottery’s game of chance is legal, judge rules






The government will be able to distribute H-1B visas via lottery in April as usual 

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The judge's ruling means that there will no changes to the H-1B distribution system this year.


On April 1, the U.S. will receive visa petitions, or applications, for the 2018 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. The U.S. holds a lottery if the petitions exceed the 85,000 cap -- an almost certain outcome.


The U.S. last year received 236,000 H-1B petitions, reducing the odds of approval to about one-in-three.


The case was brought by two Portland, Ore. firms, Tenrec Inc., a web development company, and Walker Macy, a landscape architecture firm. Each sought to hire an H-1B visa worker, but lost the lottery. The lawsuit argued that the law requires visa petitions to be processed "in the order" they are filed and not randomly.


Employers submit H-1B petitions and if they lose the annual lottery the only other option is to try again the following year.


The lawsuit charged that the lottery was being gamed at the expense of smaller employers.



The government "left open the door to large companies with multiple business units or subsidiaries to file more than one petition for the same employee in the lottery, and thus receive twice or more the chance of securing a number in the random lottery than a small company," said the plaintiffs in a summary judgment motion.


Following the ruling, plaintiff lead attorney Brent Renison, at Parrilli Renison in Portland, Ore., said: "The court did not say the lottery was the best way to distribute visas, only a permissible way. While we disagree with the court's ultimate ruling which defers to the agency, we note that Congress can change the system for the better."


Simon appeared to consider the merits of a filing date system for H-1B petitions, but said such a system could could be random as well.


"For example, the Fedex driver may have had a flat tire or took a long lunch, resulting in the UPS truck delivering its petitions before Fedex," the judge wrote. "The U.S. Mail delivery may always be delivered in the afternoon for a particular location on the mail route, making its delivery last. Is it fair to process the UPS petitions first, simply because they 'arrived' at the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service) office first?"


It is possible that President Donald Trump may attempt to make a last-minute change to the system. Some have been urging him to replace it with one that favors smaller H-1B users over large IT outsourcing firms.
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A lawsuit that challenged the fairness and legality of the H-1B lottery system, describing it as a "never ending game of chance," has been thrown out by a federal judge.  The case was heard by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon in Oregon; in a 31-page opinion, Simon said that the government's random visa distribution method does not violate the law.
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FIRE FIGHTERS LOCAL 1230 has given $135,100 to 29 different filers over 15 years.


Sorry we lost them before you could meet them


ANGELIDES, PHILIP NDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2006STANDARDGOVERNORLOST-GENERALCHALLENGER3$10,200
DAVIS, GRAYDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2002STANDARDGOVERNORWON-GENERALINCUMBENT2$10,000
SBRANTI, TIMDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2014STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 016LOST-GENERALOPEN5$8,200
BONILLA, SUSANDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2010STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 011WON-GENERALOPEN3$7,800
DESAULNIER, MARKDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2012STANDARDSENATE DISTRICT 007WON-GENERALINCUMBENT6$6,900
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BROWN, EDMUND G (JERRY)DEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2010STANDARDGOVERNORWON-GENERALOPEN1$5,000
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RAMSEY, CHARLESDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2002STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 014LOST-PRIMARYOPEN1$2,500
CANCIAMILLA, JOSEPHDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2002STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 011WON-GENERALINCUMBENT1$2,500
THURMOND, TONY KDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2014STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 015WON-GENERALOPEN1$2,100
TORRICO, ALBERTODEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2010STANDARDATTORNEY GENERALLOST-PRIMARYOPEN2$2,000
TORLAKSON, TOMNONPARTISANNONPARTISANCA2010STANDARDSUPER OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTIONWON-GENERALOPEN2$2,000
SKINNER, NANCY CDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2012STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 015WON-GENERALINCUMBENT2$2,000
BUCHANAN, JOAN TDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2012STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 016WON-GENERALINCUMBENT2$2,000
TORLAKSON, TOMDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2004STANDARDSENATE DISTRICT 007WON-GENERALINCUMBENT4$1,800
TORLAKSON, TOMDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2000STANDARDSENATE DISTRICT 007WON-GENERALCHALLENGER1$1,700
LOCKYER, BILLDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA1998STANDARDATTORNEY GENERALWON-GENERALOPEN2$1,500
HANCOCK, LONIDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2004STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 014WON-GENERALINCUMBENT2$1,500
TORLAKSON, TOMDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA1998STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 011WON-GENERALINCUMBENT2$1,100
DAVIS, GRAYDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA1998STANDARDGOVERNORWON-GENERALOPEN1$1,000
CANCIAMILLA, JOSEPHDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2004STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 011WON-GENERALINCUMBENT1$1,000
LENO, MARKDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2004STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 013WON-GENERALINCUMBENT1$1,000
BUCHANAN, JOAN TDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2008STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 015WON-GENERALOPEN1$1,000
HANCOCK, LONIDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2008STANDARDSENATE DISTRICT 009WON-GENERALOPEN1$1,000
SKINNER, NANCY CDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2008STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 014WON-GENERALOPEN1$1,000
TORLAKSON, TOMDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2008STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 011WON-GENERALOPEN1$1,000
SKINNER, NANCY CDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2010STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 014WON-GENERALINCUMBENT1$1,000
BUCHANAN, JOAN TDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2010STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 015WON-GENERALINCUMBENT1$1,000
FLOYD, RICHARD E (DICK)DEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2000STANDARDSENATE DISTRICT 025LOST-PRIMARYOPEN1$500
LOCKYER, BILLDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2002STANDARDATTORNEY GENERALWON-GENERALINCUMBENT1$500
HANCOCK, LONIDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2012STANDARDSENATE DISTRICT 009WON-GENERALINCUMBENT1$500
TORLAKSON, TOMNONPARTISANNONPARTISANCA2014STANDARDSUPER OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTIONWON-GENERALINCUMBENT1$500
SHAW, ELAINE DDEMOCRATICDEMOCRATICCA2004STANDARDASSEMBLY DISTRICT 015LOST-GENERALCHALLENGER1$250
EASTIN, DELAINENONPARTISANNONPARTISANCA1998STANDARDSUPER OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTIONWON-GENERALOPEN









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