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.
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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!
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(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.
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