SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - MARCH 14: Carlos Diaz, 84, reads local newspaper “El Vocero” with a front page depicting both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum and a headline reading, “The National Battle Arrives on the Island,” as Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum visits La Fortaleza, the governor’s mansion, to meet with Governor Luis Fortuno, March 14, 2012 in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Santorum was to meet with Fortuno while on his two-day campaign trip on the island commonwealth. There are 23 GOP delegates up for grabs although Fortuno, a Republican, has already expressed his support for Mitt Romney. (Photo by Christopher Gregory/Getty Images)
Photo: Christopher Gregory/2012 Getty Images
“To be a state of the United States, English has to be the principal language.” — Rick Santorum, telling a Puerto Rican newspaper that the island has to drop Spanish as a co-official language if it wants to become a state, something that is, incidentally, not true.
Most job gains were in the leisure and hospitality sector, which includes restaurants
Hiring accelerated sharply in February as restaurants and other hospitality businesses reopened, adding 379,000 to U.S. payrolls and fueling renewed growth as the coronavirus pandemic eases.
U.S. employers added jobs for the second straight month in February, the Labor Department said Friday, in what marks a sharp pickup from earlier this winter.
The unemployment rate, determined by a separate survey, ticked down to 6.2% last month. The jobless rate is well down from a 14.8% peak in April 2020, but remains above pre-pandemic levels, when unemployment was near 50-year lows.
According to Quinnipiac, Cuomo’s position post-scandal is not disastrous
New via @QuinnipiacPoll: -New York voters say 55-40% that Cuomo should *not* resign -59-36% say they would *not* like to see Andrew Cuomo run for reelection in 2022 -45-46% Cuomo job approval rating, with Democrats *approving* 65-27% https://t.co/8AGvqH6YTB
If only someone had told them that sort of thing was frowned upon
Punchbowl News: Three Republicans — Louie Gohmert, Kelly Armstrong, and Randy Weber — tried to change Lance Gooden’s vote for him after he voted in favor of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. This is a big, big no-no.
What they did could be a violation of House rules.