Posted on 03/05/2022 12:12:45 AM PST by knighthawk
President Joe Biden took a dig at West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin in a new interview – pointing to the stalled Build Back Better plan's $500 billion in climate programs despite Manchin's gripes.
Biden made the comment to with historian Heather Cox Richardson, speaking in front of a crackling fire in the China Room of the White House, when he brought up Manchin while defending his $1.8 trillion plan, which died at the end of 2021 with little movement since.
He pitched individual programs in his State of the Union, and rolled out a new 'Building America Better' rebrand on a trip to Wisconsin this week.
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Had to read to end to see this.
He said in another comment to Richardson – who prefaced questions with long historical propositions – ‘You make me miss being a professor at Penn ... I really enjoyed teaching and writing.’
In fact Biden had an honorary professor position and gave some lectures at the Penn Biden Center, but didn’t teach a class, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.
Didn’t he teach Corn Pop how to split the atom?
A crackling fire....WTF?
Where the hell is the EPA?
I am so very tired of hearing these words, phrases, acronyms etc.. The words and phrases we seldom hear anymore are words like individuality, liberty, freedom, personal responsibility, innocence, self determinism, honesty, integrity, industrious, compassionate, selfless, charity, etc.
Hunter hangs out in the Ukraine Room. Free crack pipes for everyone.
Boy, did Australia’s Sky News demolish VP Kamala Harris on YouTube. We’re really screwed!
delusional
“Boy, did Australia’s Sky News demolish VP Kamala Harris on YouTube. We’re really screwed!”
I believe you are referring to this?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_i9C-Y7gY&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D
Professor at Penn State?
President Walter Mitty.....geezus.
Heather Cox Richardson: I’m a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures.
They rubbed leg hairs..
That’s a Fox News segment with Newt Gingrich.
All I saw was a Newt Gingrich interview.
I wish Corn Pop had taught him how to run the 100-meter dash.
University of Pennsylvania paid Joe Biden more than $900K. What did he do to earn the money?
He claims a professorship yet he never taught a single semester.
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 7/12/2019 | Jonathan Tamari
Posted on 3/4/2022, 10:08:52 PM by know.your.why
WASHINGTON — What did the University of Pennsylvania get for the more than $900,000 it has paid Joe Biden?
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https://www.inquirer.com/news/joe-biden-penn-salary-lectures-20190712.html
PAYBACK? Penn President Amy Gutmann will likely be Biden’s pick for the prime ambassadorship, raising questions about whether its payback for the lucrative position Biden held at Penn after exiting as VP in 2017.
Biden became Penns Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor, the first person to hold the position.
Biden collected $371,159 in 2017 and $540,484 in 2018 and early 2019 for a job with largely undefined duties. The agreement also required around a dozen appearances on campus, most of which were attended by wealthy donors paying top-dollar for tickets.
Inquirer.com
by Catherine Dunn, Updated Feb 24, 2020
U of Penn got $258 million in foreign money, and there may be more it hadn’t disclosed
Department of Education officials are cracking down on how schools report funds they receive from foreign sources.
The University of Pennsylvania accepted $258 million in foreign gifts and contracts from donors in China, Saudi Arabia, and other countries, federal disclosures show.
The University of Pennsylvania accepted $258 million in foreign gifts and contracts from donors in China, Saudi Arabia, and other countries, federal disclosures show.
Chinese banks and real estate firms. Pharmaceutical companies in nearly a dozen countries. Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense.
These are among the hundreds of foreign organizations that have made financial gifts or contracted with the University of Pennsylvania between 2013 and the middle of last year, federal records show. The amount of foreign money flowing to Penn during that period comes to $257.9 million, with China giving the most of any country.
But that total could be even higher, according to Department of Education officials cracking down on how schools report funds they receive from foreign sources. Since July 1, the department said this month, 10 schools have disclosed $3.6 billion in “previously unreported” foreign money, including two Pennsylvania colleges: Penn and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
The announcement came as the Education Department issued two investigative requests to Harvard and Yale, asking for more information about their foreign funding. Last year, the department sent similar notices to six other schools, including Rutgers University and MIT.
The requests have focused on gifts coming from countries such as China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Russia.
“If colleges and universities are accepting foreign money and gifts, their students, donors, and taxpayers deserve to know how much and from whom,” Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said in a Feb. 12 statement. “Moreover, it’s what the law requires. Unfortunately, the more we dig, the more we find that too many are under-reporting or not reporting at all.”
Under the Higher Education Act, schools must disclose gifts and contracts of $250,000 or more in a calendar year. Colleges file the reports by Jan. 31 or July 31, whichever date is soonest after the transaction, and data covering the previous 6½ years are posted online.
An Education Department spokesperson told The Inquirer that Penn “recently submitted a number of ‘previously unreported’ transactions” that don’t appear in the data that’s currently online. Most of the transactions “appear to have been submitted last month,” the official said. That new information likely will be released in March or April.
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Overall, Penn raised $626 million last year, placing it among the top 10 colleges that received the most donations, according to a survey of 913 schools by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Penn did not respond to several requests for comment on the foreign funding data.
“Carnegie Mellon has always taken seriously our obligation to report contracts with and donations from foreign persons and entities, and we believe we have accurately disclosed these contracts and donations in compliance with Section 117 of the Higher Education Act,” school spokesperson Julie Mattera said in a statement. “We have not changed the way we report.”
The American Council on Education says the DOE hasn’t given colleges enough guidance on how to comply with the reporting requirements. “Instead, what they’ve done is play a game of ‘gotcha’ with some high-profile schools,” said Steven Bloom, the group’s director of government relations.
In January 2019, the council, which lobbies for colleges and universities, asked the department for clarification on reporting thresholds and correcting previous reports.
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The following month, a bipartisan U.S. Senate report examined Confucius Institutes, which offer language classes and promote cultural events on U.S. campuses with funding from the Chinese government. The report, from a subcommittee overseen by chairman Rob Portman (R., Ohio) and Delaware Democrat Tom Carper, said this Chinese funding “comes with strings that can compromise academic freedom.” It also found that colleges were failing to report foreign gifts and that the Department of Education was not conducting regular oversight.
The available data show that organizations in China gave $67.6 million in gifts and contracts to Penn between Jan. 1, 2013, and June 30, 2019. Penn received the third-highest amount of funding from groups in mainland China, behind Harvard and the University of Southern California, a Bloomberg analysis found this month.
Financial institutions, collectively, were among China’s leading gift-givers to Penn. Six banks in China gave donations or contracts to Penn that were collectively worth $13.6 million. Another big donor — E-House (China) Holdings Limited, a real estate services company — gave $6.3 million in gifts.
Forty percent of the mainland China gifts, worth $27.1 million, came from anonymous donors.
After China, money from sources in England ($60.9 million), Hong Kong ($24.9 million), Singapore ($14.6 million), and India ($11 million) rounded out the top five countries giving gifts and contracts to Penn.
About $35 million worth of contracts and donations to Penn came from pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical-device firms abroad — such as GlaxoSmithKline ($10.2 million in contracts) and AstraZeneca ($5.3 million in contracts) in England, BioNTech in Germany (a $4.4 million contract), and CRISPR Therapeutics in Switzerland ($1.95 million in contracts).
Eric Campbell, a professor of medicine and bioethics expert at the University of Colorado, said it’s not surprising that global drug companies would be involved with a major research university such as Penn.
“When it comes to research grants, they are generally viewed as acceptable and there are very elaborate infrastructures for managing them at universities,” Campbell said.
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About $35 million worth of contracts and donations to Penn came from pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical-device firms abroad — such as GlaxoSmithKline ($10.2 million in contracts) and AstraZeneca ($5.3 million in contracts) in E, BioNTech in Germany (a $4.4 million contract), and CRISPR Therapeutics in Switzerland ($1.95 million in contracts).
Out of all Penn’s foreign gifts and contracts, the $2.7 million originating in Saudi Arabia was tiny, making up about 1%.
The school disclosed two monetary gifts from the Saudi Ministry of Defense: one in March 2017 for $767,000, and one in April 2018 for $557,000.
A third entry for the Saudi Defense Ministry was labeled as a contract for $684,400 in April 2019.
Penn political science professor Robert Vitalis recalled giving a lecture to Saudi military officers attending an executive education seminar at Wharton in March 2017. “I was paid a couple thousand dollars for the 45-minute lecture,” Vitalis said. But he didn’t know whether the seminar was connected to the foreign funds reflected in the Department of Education data.
A Wharton spokesperson referred all questions to Penn’s media relations, which did not respond to messages.
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Biden Center at Univ of Penn Accepted Undisclosed China Donations
By NLPC, National Legal & Policy Center May 29, 2020
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a nonprofit public interest organization, filed a complaint with the DoE requesting that it conduct a full investigation into the University of Pennsylvania’s failure to disclose the source of millions of dollars of donations from China since 2013 to the university and its Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement as required by law.
Rest of article pulled
Is this Chinese money......evidence to save Bidens sorry ***?
Penn to donate $100 million to Philadelphia School District to ...https://www.inquirer.com
Nov 17, 2020 — The University of Pennsylvania will donate $100 million over 10 years to the Philadelphia School District to remediate environmental hazards ...
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