GOP Congress will make America corrupt and dangerous again!
Next week, Republicans plan to kill rules on corruption, environment, labor and guns…
… including a controversial anti-bribery rule aimed at U.S. resource companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp, according to a top lawmaker.
After six years of legal battles, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in June approved the rule requiring companies to disclose payments to foreign governments. It will probably be killed swiftly with two simple congressional votes.
Other rules eyed for quick overturning by Congress include newly minted environmental, gun control and labor relations measures, sources said.
Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress can use simple majority votes to stop recent regulations in their tracks. The timing in the law means that any rules that became final after May 31 could go on the chopping block.
House of Representatives Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the second-most powerful Republican in the chamber, had said he would start using that law quickly after President Donald Trump was inaugurated to help roll back regulations the party considers abusive. House Republicans have been on a blitz of regulatory reform, passing bills to drive down regulations’ costs and create more congressional oversight.
The Republican-dominated House will bypass the committee process and go directly to a vote by the entire chamber on a half-dozen resolutions, McCarthy’s spokesman said on Wednesday.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
12 responses to GOP Congress will make America corrupt and dangerous again!
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Budda January 26th, 2017 at 08:58
Proving again that Republicans are the party of corporations and not the people.
The Original Just Me January 26th, 2017 at 11:17
They have Definitely been taken over by the NAZI Party as I have been saying for years.
fahvel January 26th, 2017 at 09:46
Granted, the pres is an uniformed miserable putain de merde but it’s hard to understand how the entire repug party is the same. Somewhere in their septic hole there must be some who actually care about the usa and see the dickinoffice as a fkn fraud, an insane fraud.
The Original Just Me January 26th, 2017 at 11:16
The Bubbling Crud has finally came to the surface in the Retartdican Party.
Suzanne McFly January 26th, 2017 at 11:25
I agree, at least one of the republicans has to have morals. I hate that, that will be our saving grace to keep us from all of this slobs policy ideas.
Tommie January 26th, 2017 at 10:31
I feel America has been corrupt and dangerous for a very long time, nothing has change!
The Original Just Me January 26th, 2017 at 11:14
It’s time for you to play Catch Up.
The Original Just Me January 26th, 2017 at 11:13
God Reagan and G W will be Blown Away by the New Master of Corruption ” Dictator Trump ” !!
Suzanne McFly January 26th, 2017 at 11:23
It proves that the dumber one is also the most corrupt.
ron berey January 26th, 2017 at 22:58
you are talking about trump right.
Suzanne McFly January 27th, 2017 at 10:41
It is a correlation, the dumber a President is, the more susceptible he is to corruption.
Bunya January 26th, 2017 at 14:34
GOP congress will make American corrupt and dangerous again????
It’s already corrupt and dangerous. That happened on 1/20/17. The real problem is, since most of the other countries can’t stand tRump, he’s liable to start a nuclear war and we’ll all be dead.
On the other hand, if we’re all killed, there will be no corrupt and dangerous people left to carry on.