Precious little is happening in the 29th during the holidays.
In the euphemism watch department, Randy Kuhl was one of the signatories of a bi-partisan letter to Eliot Spitzer, urging him to support a "woody biomass" power generation plant near Ellicottville. "Woody biomass" is the shiny new name given to trees and branches: apparently "Utilizing Woody Biomass" sounds a lot more high-tech than "burning wood". According to a GAO report [pdf], it is cleaner than coal, but more labor-intensive and harder to obtain.
In the pork watch department, Kuhl announced still more Homeland Security grants to local fire departments.
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Oh yes, desperate need for frontline, terrorist-fighting “Homeland Security” in the tiny, blink-and-you’ve-missed-it-crossroad of Himrod NY, which lies far removed, out in the middle of nowhere in Yates County. They could be hiding out in the vast acres of mostly Mennonite-owned cornfields.
I agree: turning Homeland Security money into pork-barrel "everybody gets some" funding is one of the worst legacies of the recent Congress and White House. I think both the Dems and Republicans probably share the blame for this one.