just got the guy who made billions selling Bethelehem Steel to the Chinese.
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/columns/moneyandmind/10279/index1.html

They bend over backwards not to offend Republicans, because Republicans get angry and throw their weight around.

And to the extent that any of us actually have any real power in this country, we should learn to do the same.

Three? Evidently draining the swamp meant turning it over to the gators.

Another punch in the gut. The media needs to be hammering this POS. No a word of outrage.

We are screwed.

NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) is the largest component of the DoC. Dubya did his best to have them stop any research into climate change and ocean acidification when he was in office. This guy is likely to stop the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration from doing any actual science related to the oceans or the atmosphere.

When I was a part-timr contractor working for them, one of the incoming Commerce Secretaries had absolutely NO idea that NOAA was part of DoC, much less it's largest piece. Too many scientists and researchers had to shelve years of research and data when Dumb-ya essentially shut them down (no funding for research, ban on publication of scientific papers related to climate, etc.), and I'm not really sure that they have completely caught up, yet. Pretty much everything shifted to the Fisheries departments, and much of that was geared toward how to extract the most possible profit from the oceans rather than how to preserve fragile ecosystems so that the marine life could thrive.

Fun times...which I fear will probably be much worse under anything that tRump appoints.