Posted on 02/04/2016 4:14:29 PM PST by PROCON
The House of Representatives concluded a tense debate Thursday by voting 250-169 to end a controversial Obama administration program called Operation Choke Point.
Critics say the secretive program, run by the Department of Justice, has been used to target politically unpopular industries such as gun sellers.
"We're elated," Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., one of the bill's co-sponsors, told The Daily Signal after the vote. "We've been working on this for two and a half years--we've been lied to, put off and dissed by the different regulatory agencies, and we've prevailed."
Operation Choke Point was designed by the Justice Department in 2013 as a way to fight fraud by pressuring banks to "choke off" access to credit and other banking services by merchants and industries the administration considered at a high risk for fraud.
Without access to banking services, it is difficult--if not impossible--for a business to survive.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
Every single Republicans voted for it and 169 democrats voted against the bill.
The final votes are listed at the link.
Useless post. I looked at list and it is way too small to read. Clinton is a communist elitist so I won’t be voting for her anyway.
If a baker can be forced to bake a wedding cake, why can’t a bank be forced to do business with a gun store?
/rhetorical
You know when your elected representative use the word “dissed”, you are in sorry shape.
Good boy!
:pat-pat:
Have a scooby snack.
Remember to praise your congress critter for doing the right thing.
Thanks for that! McMorris Rodgers finally got one right!
hold control button (windows) and hit + until it’s big enough.
All 6 Louisiana Congressional Representatives voted Aye.
Won’t Obama simply veto this?
It still has to pass the senate before Obama gets a chance at it.
BTW, Luetkemeyer is my rep.
The vote was to defund the program. End of story to the best of my knowledge.
”. . . by pressuring banks to ”choke off” access to credit and other banking services by merchants and industries the administration considered at a high risk for fraud.”
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponents Argument
Thomas Jefferson had written that the delegates to the constitutional Convention had considered giving Congress the specific power to regulate INTRAstate banking, but had dropped the idea.
”A proposition was made to them to authorize Congress to open canals, and an amendatory one to empower them to incorporate. But the whole was rejected, and one of the reasons for rejection urged in debate was, that then they would have a power to erect a bank, which would render the great cities, where there were prejudices and jealousies on the subject, adverse to the reception of the Constitution [emphasis added].” - Jeffersons Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.
”Critics say the secretive program, run by the Department of Justice, has been used to target politically unpopular industries such as gun sellers.”
Again, never accept the premise of your opponents argument.
Regardless what FDRs state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congress Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for the purposes of regulating 10th Amendment-protected INTRAstate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” - Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So if buyer and seller are domiciled in the same state in this example, I do not see where the corrupt feds have the constitutional authority to regulate intrastate gun sales.
But the real problem with this issue is neither the corrupt executive or judicial branches imo.
More specifically, corrupt Congress is wrongly letting federal government members outside the legislative branch steal not only federal legislative branch powers, but also 10th Amendment-protected state legislative powers imo. Lawmakers are likely letting outsiders steal and abuse legislative powers presumable to let outsiders do their unconstitutional legislative work for them in order to keep their own voting records clean to fool low-information patriots into reelecting them.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also work to protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Everything Congress passes has to be signed.
They already gave him all the money he needs to finish out his term.
Just like they recently tried to defund Planned Parenthood, this will get vetoed as well.
Trying to take back something you have already given is much harder than refusing it in the first place.
The weasel Speaker gave away the store, these are feel-good votes to mollify the caucus but will change nothing.
Sadly, I’m afraid you’re correct.
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