Posted on 01/05/2019 4:31:17 AM PST by Libloather
House Democrats on Friday introduced a sweeping government reform package designed to weed Washington of corruption and bolster voting rights across the country — two of the party’s principal campaign promises — as its top legislative priority.
Central to the package is a provision requiring the president and vice president to disclose their finances and tax forms going back 10 years— a direct shot at President Trump, who has defied historic precedent by refusing to release his tax returns.
“Over the last two years, President Trump set the tone from the top in his administration that behaving ethically and complying with the law is optional,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), chairman of the Oversight and Reform Committee.
“This is our watch, and the American people are looking for us to take action.”
The reforms have little chance of moving through the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stands in staunch opposition to the proposals.
But the legislation — and the Democrats’ decision to launch it as their first act of business — signals that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) intends to use her gavel to move quickly on the campaign vows that won Democrats the House majority, while putting Senate GOP leaders in the tough spot of explaining their inaction on “drain-the-swamp” reforms that enjoy overwhelming public support.
“We are introducing … legislation to clean up corruption and restore integrity to government,” Pelosi, flanked by dozens of Democratic lawmakers, said during a packed press briefing in the Capitol.
“The American people will know that this is an option that the House has given the Senate of the United States and the president of the United States to take action in support of the American people.”
The package features dozens of proposals, grouped broadly into three categories: limiting the influence of money in politics, making it easier to vote, and adopting tougher ethics rules for Washington policymakers.
Democratic leaders are moving the package quickly under the premise that reforming how the government operates will boost the public’s trust in Congress, thereby greasing the skids for the issue-based reforms Democrats are promising later in the year, including big-ticket items addressing infrastructure, immigration and health care concerns.
“We heard loud and clear from the American people that they feel left out and locked out too often from their own democracy,” said Rep. John Sarbanes (Md.), who led the Democrats in cobbling together the reform package.
“In return for giving us the gavel, we’re going to do everything we can, every single day, to give you your democracy back.”
On the campaign finance side, the legislation would not cap political spending, but would require political organizations to reveal their large donors. The provision is a response to a 2010 Supreme Court decision allowing unrestricted and anonymous campaign spending by corporations and unions.
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“In return for giving us the gavel, we’re going to do everything we can, every single day, to give you you’re democracy back.”
They will, in reality, work every single day to take back their control over every aspect of your life, to flood our country with low-life scum people who will be allowed to live out their lives as guests of the taxpayers, and to tax everything in sight to pay for it all.
How this blatantly partisan attack on a single American, the current President, helps the American people is beyond me. It is a nasty un-American stunt. Directing a law at a single man seems to contradict what this country is supposed to be founded upon.
So the Democrats are going to introduce Voter ID along with other measures to guarantee ballot integrity, etc., and then they are going to resign en masse so that the Republicans that ran in each district can get in there and do the work of the American people? Awesome!
Somehow, I just don't feel reassured that the architects of vote fraud and political corruption are at all serious about cleaning up the swamp.
My God! This is the same stuff Pelosi said last time she became speaker.
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The MSM and the entire assembly if the screaming idiotic left cannot make a dent in the approval ratings of PDJT.
See:
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Reagan performed 78 vetoes during his term.
Franklin D. Roosevelt has the record at 635.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_vetoes
I hope Trump follows their example. Congress will certainly produce a lot of nonsense. It’s noise, they have to look like they’re doing something.
Ask every member of the House and Senate if he/she is party to any non-disclosure agreements. A refusal to answer should be considered an admission.
Then voters should act accordingly.
That would drain that swamp.
More big lies of course. It’s a law designed to harrass the one man in between them and total socialist domination.
>>Democrats launch ‘drain-the-swamp’ agenda
Stalinists lie. Always
Obstruct
Deceive
Witchhunt
That is the Democrapweasels’ agenda
“Ademocracyrepublic if you can keep it."
Truth in advertising would require they relabel the law as the Empower Swamp Harassment bill.
It sounds like it does nothing to attack the Deep State™ at all. WHAT A JOKE AND A PERVERSION.
>>we’re going to do everything we can, every single day, to give you you’re democracy back.”
Stalinists lie. Always
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/07/the-case-against-democracy
November 7, 2016 Issue
The New Yorker: The Case Against Democracy
“If most voters are uninformed, who should make decisions about the public’s welfare?”
So they are having a mass suicide when? Is there a GoFundMe page?
Stalinists lie. Always
Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w
“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”
“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”
“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”
“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”
“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”
Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo
“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”
Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff
AND WHO IS IN CHARGE OF IT?? WHO HAS BEEN IN CHARGE OF IT!! ROAST THEM!
The Speaker and her house are irrelevant. Their actions are prettymuch just press releases
““In return for giving us the gavel, we’re going to do everything we can, every single day, to give you you’re democracy back.””
I’m guessing that 70% tax proposed by Occasional Kotex is giving us back democracy?
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