DCCC Document Shows That Democrats ‘SELL’ Committee Seats For $550,000, Chairmanships For $1.8M Smackaroos! Pelosi raised $43 MIL alone!
Whores gonna do what D.C. whores gonna do... sell it!
Want to clean up D.C.? Well, somewhat. Get rid of Lobbyists and make this kind of activity illegal.
I guess we now know why Pelosi’s husband got all of those no bid contracts.. :-) Does that make her a ‘Madame’?
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Democratic leadership expects House members on certain committees to leverage corporate interests to fund raise higher amounts, an internal document from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee shows. Leadership also requires those members to fund raise and donate specific amounts to the party.
The chairmen of “exclusive committees” — four committees that banks and other industries target because they deal with money and regulation — are expected to fund raise from lobbyists and political action committees with interests before those jurisdictions and to pay $600,000 to the DCCC in “dues,” plus fund raise $1.2 million for the party, the document, obtained by the Intercept, shows.
The members are Reps. Nita Lowey of the Appropriations Committee, Richard Neal of the Ways and Means Committee, Frank Pallone of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Maxine Waters of the Financial Services Committee. The first three are on track to meet their dues goals, while Waters has not paid a dollar, according to the document.
The chairmen of 17 other committees that are not traditionally feted with corporate cash, meanwhile, are expected to pay $300,000 in dues plus $300,000 in party fundraising in exchange for the gavel.
Some subcommittees are the subject of corporate and interest-group lobbying that is at least as fierce as those entire committees. Twenty-three such subcommittee chairs are also asked to pay the same amount.
Meanwhile, four committees are the subject of so much big-money lobbying that even being a rank-and-file member on the committees comes with a fundraising expectation. Members of the committees on Ways and Means; Appropriations; Energy and Commerce; and Financial Services are expected to pay a quarter-million dollars each to the DCCC in dues, plus fund raise $300,000.
“Members of Congress who pay their dues and hit their targets are rewarded with better committee assignments in the future, and more favorable treatment of legislation they author, than members who shirk their dues. Members who don’t pay, for instance, are less likely to have their bills or amendments get a floor or committee vote,” the Intercept reported.
The document shows that the DCCC is having trouble raising cash even from its own Congress members
DCCC PDF
More here
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6381161-July-Caucus-Report-2019-DRAFT.html#document/p1
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Just when I think I can’t be more disgusted with D.C.
Doll I pray you are not in the path of that stormy weather!
This boils my blood ... I know the Pubbies do the exact same thing and I think it is a total abrogation of their oath of office.
Basically they aren’t doing what they’re constituents want, but what they are paid to do by donations.
Makes me think that Corporations should have some of their “person” rights removed. I would keep the most important part which is the distancing of liability to share holders.
Yes, it does.
Just damn...
bribery such as this is simply the “DC way “ of doing business.
nobody there sees anything wrong with this at all