Posted on 01/06/2019 7:17:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Once again, there is a push for Congress to be exempt from what they demand of others. But this time it isn’t an onerous health care plan.
On Friday, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced H.R.1, the “For the People Act,” according to CNS News.
A summary of the bill is available online and gives a quick look at what is included in the 571-page legislation. Maryland’s Democratic Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md.is the lead author of the bill, as well as the chairman of the Democracy Reform Task Force.
CNBC reported that Sarbannes said in a statement that “Once we clean up Washington and get special interests out of the way, we can get to work on a whole host of important issues that Americans care about.” However, from the items specified in the bill’s summary, it appears more like it is about addressing the Democrats’ “special interests.”
One glaring example of that is found in Title X – Presidential Transparency. In the summary, it reads simply as “Requires sitting presidents and vice presidents, as well as candidates for the presidency and vice presidency, to release their tax returns.”
Forcing President Donald Trump to release his tax returns was a talking point used in the 2018 mid-term elections by Democrats. Of note is the fact that Congress is not held to the same standard.
There is nothing in the bill summary indicating any mandate that candidates for Congress release their tax returns. Members of Congress are sometimes held in suspicion by the American public over the fact that a number of them become millionaires while serving in office, despite insufficient government pay to accomplish such a thing.
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A Law targeting one or two people ,didn’t they try that during the G W Bush years ?
That wouldn’t last 5 minutes in the Federal courts.
Just say'n.
OBEY YOUR BETTERS!
So, what’s different?
The Ninth Circus would keep it alive.
I live a little more than a hundred miles from the DC swamp and already the stench is starting to build.
Methinks a lower court will rule in favor and the Supremes will refuse to take it up ... you underestimate the hatred DC has for outsiders.
Senate isn’t going to even take it up. DOA. One of those bills going nowhere.
Sarbannes said in a statement that “Once we clean up Washington and get special interests out of the way, we can get to work on a whole host of important issues that Americans care about.”
What a lying, thieving sack of shat!
We the People want to see YOUR tax returns, Reps!!
We want to know exactly the path one takes to enter that job as a NOT wealthy person, only to have acquired millions, a few years later.
We know, we just want to see YOUR returns. You know....like how you KNOW Trump has done something nefarious.
We the People don’t five a glip about Trump’s returns. We know he got his money the old fashioned way. He EARNED it.
What business or job have ANY of you created or started?
We’re sick and tired of you leaches. YOU are the problem in DC, not Trump or Pence.
For the next two years, Nancy and her cohorts are going to be as useless as a pile of dog crap.
They will have lots of time and opportunity to show themselves for the freak show they really are.
Yeah, they know that.
They are just creating fake talking points for the 2020 election and keeping the rest of the proglibs pumped up to milk them for cash.
Mule-her is going to be a complete wash so they need a totally different dialog occurring for when he dumps the non-report.
The neo-communist media will see to it that the narrative is correct at that time.
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So says the vile, zombie-looking, Samoan slave-owning, Botoxian.....whadda POS.
Years ago I said a prayer for all the leftists to keep their mouths open so that we would know what is, or is not, in their brains. Even if it makes us utterly crazy.
Thank you Jesus for continuing to answer my prayer!
If the President and Vice President (#’s 1 and 2 on the totem pole) have to release their tax returns, why doesn’t #3 have to release hers?
Would this go to the Senate, because it would get killed in the Senate.
They won’t become law being bottled up in the Senate.
Chuck U doesn’t have 60 votes to break a filibuster.
Few if any House bills will make it to the President’s desk.
Thank you Jesus for continuing to answer my prayer!
Amen
Democrats can pass all the bills they want. The Senate simply won’t take them up.
That’s why divided party control of Congress results in guaranteed gridlock.
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