Posted on 11/19/2025 12:45:37 PM PST by RandFan
@RepTimBurchett
I’m ticked off. Let’s see if we have the guts to ban Members of Congress from trading stocks.
Thank you to @RepBryanSteil and @HouseAdmin for holding a hearing on this issue. It’s time to prove to America that we are working for them, not just for ourselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...
MTG my cougar crush cashed in big time.
She was on a committee that had inside information that Palatiir was going to get a big contract and she bought the stock before it was made public. A real woman of the people… Not!
Can we make that retroactive and get Nancy’s money back?
Can we make that retroactive and get Nancy’s money back?
It’s not a sewer, D.C. is one big crime scene.
The U.K. House of Commons in the 1800s for example was a famous refuge for some of the most notorious scalawags, ne’re-do-wells and debt-laden deadbeats looking to use the privileges afforded by their new political office to avoid or forestall prosecution by the law or by their many frustrated creditors.
We need to at least double the number of members of our federal House of Representatives. (The Chevron Doctrine having now been struck down by SCOTUS, the federal legislature is no longer going to be permitted by the federal judiciary to perform quasi-legislative functions. The quantity of legislative committee work needs to increase, bigly, as does the level of fine detail of regulatory schemes passed by Congress, the same now no longer being allowed to be passed off to unelected bureaucrats.)
As we increase the size of Congress by amending COTUS, don’t look for the raw material fed into the representative-minting process to improve in quality anytime soon!
Oops:
(The Chevron Doctrine having now been struck down by SCOTUS, federal agencies and other employees of executive branch departments are no longer going to be permitted by the federal judiciary to perform even quasi-legislative functions anymore....
YES you make a good point. They capped the number of members of Congress, it’s meant to be 4-5 x as big
Like in NH sort of thing.
But they capped it and it’s a lot easier to bribe a small number.
Congress should have thousands of members now and they should be unpaid public servants
“Let’s see if we have the guts to ban Members of Congress from trading stocks.”
Not a matter of guts, a matter of common sense. As long as the ruling lawmakers can make decisions based upon stock and bond they are in a position of conflict of interest. And any decisions that reflect the possibility of financial gain to them or their immediate family should be reigned in.
wy69
Hey give them a break. It’s the only most of those
Congre$$folks can plan for their retirement.
I would bet that 99% of them have committed a felony to get where they are.
Now if we could get a law passed that made them do random drug & alcohol tests...
Cattle futures are okay. (Says Clintons)
“...they should be unpaid public servants...”
On the contrary.
The salary should be doubled, at least.
We need them to work like slaves. We can throw good over the wall to them. When the budget is passed maybe they can go to a movie or two with Rep. Boebert. But before that it’s @$$holes and elbows as they used to say in the fleet.
...throw food...
Burchett sure walks sounds good but I don’t for sure honestly
Under my radar till a few years ago
If you’re in Nashville then Knoxville might as well be in Virginia
And I like Knoxville even though unionist to some degree it’s more southern than here
Burchett is like Louisiana Kennedy folksy down home vernacular and puts you at ease
But you better watch out
There is brain back there
Clinton we all have to admit was a master of southern put you at ease talk too
While he took your wallet wife and daughter
And his wife …..your life
30 YEARS TOO LATE.
Mere foot stomping for effect.
I guess it was he who said a couple of days ago that a swamp is part of nature and a home to life forms and isn’t useless but a sewer contains man made waste such as DC politicians’ coverups and grifting schemes.
I’m not at all impressed with Burchett, nor am I convinced “there’s a brain back there”. But I suppose I’m asking him to pass a high bar. You see, our past reps (John Duncan and then his son Jimmy Duncan) were dream-come-true solid conservatives who truly cared about and served their constituents.
During the Duncans’ long tenure, all you had to do was call up Mildred at the local office and — eh voila! — problem solved.
Not so at all with Burchett’s office. Nothing, nada, just do-nothing cheeky kids in that office. They could not care less about us. In his appearances on local radio, well, frankly, he sounds very low IQ to me, but like I wrote before, we old timers got spoiled by the Duncans.
BTW, I get what you mean about the difference between Nashville and Knoxville. Both my parents were from the Nashville area (both families descended from original settlers in Davidson, Wilson and Rutherford counties). So I’m culturally a Middle Tennessean even though I grew up in Knoxville.
Knoxville used to have some good things about it, but I don’t like Knoxville anymore myself. Too many arrogant foul mouthed Yankees and Californians have invaded and the traffic is atrocious! Soon moving to the wonderful house I bought on a Louisiana barrier island. I’m gonna go Cajun now lol.
BTW, it’s quite possible, even likely, we’re some sort of distant cousins, you and I. My ancestors on both sides first arrived here in the early to mid 1600s, starting out in Tidewater Virginia and then some moving on to the Carolina coast. (There was one branch of my mother’s family who arrived with the first Puritans in New England, but as those Puritans could never get along with each other, my ancestors kept moving south until a certain Puritan young lady fell for a dashing Cavalier in Virginia and forgot all about hating mince pie and turned thoroughly Southern lol).
Anyway, back in the early 1700s, my paternal ancestor I call “Old John” or “Beaufort John” had three sons and a few daughters. I am descended from one of the two elder sons*. The youngest son was born late in Old John’s life and only five years old when he died, so Old John left him a very nice fortune. Old friends of the family who had migrated to Mississippi (and quite wealthy) came to visit Old John’s widow and family when this youngest son was of marriageable age, and he fell for their beautiful (and set to inherit a fortune) daughter. So he sold out, married her, and off to Mississippi he went with his lovely (and rich) new bride.
Their descendants served in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 and other conflicts (a father and son both somehow becoming colonels, Sr and Jr, a bit confusing), and in the Mississippi legislature. There are some hysterical markers about them in Mississippi, and there used to be a statue of one who served as a commanding officer of some sort for the Confederate States during the War of Northern Aggression, but it was likely torn down during the BLM madness.
The split between brothers whose descendants ended up in Middle Tennessee and Mississippi happened back in the mid-1700s, but chances are, my ancestors’ descendants and your ancestors crossed paths somewhere back there and married. Hi Cuz!
*The elder two brothers remained on their lands around Beaufort, extending them into neighboring new areas as time went on, until after their service in the Revolutionary War, after which they turned up their noses at their land grants in what is now South Carolina and bought land in Middle Tennessee instead. I can’t be entirely sure which elder brother was my grandpa because records got messy during the Revolutionary War and because all of the males in that line were named John William with the next brother named William John and they *all* married ladies named Sarah Elizabeth or Elizabeth Sarah — for generations on end! Not only that, the ones named John William went by William and the ones named William John went by John! Yikes! I do know for certain “Old Beaufort John” was my ancestor, and that he thought a lot of his “silver shue buckels”, at least in his will. They came before all the livestock. Go figure.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.