Alternet:
....Check out the financial services subcommittee, which handles legislation affecting Wall Street bankers. Five tea partiers got coveted slots on this panel, and all five were suddenly showered with big donations from such financial lobbying interests as Goldman Sachs. Now, all five are sponsoring bills to undo parts of the recent reforms to reign in Wall Street excesses.
Steve Stivers of Ohio, for example, hauled in nearly $100,000 in just his first two months in office -- 85 percent of it from the special interests his committee oversees. He insists that the cash he took from Goldman Sachs and others has nothing to do with his subsequent support of bills that Goldman is lobbying so strongly for. Stivers claims that his sole legislative focus is on jobs for Ohio's 15th district.
Really? Among the deform-the-reform bills that Steve is carrying is one to let Wall Street giants avoid disclosing the difference in what the CEO is paid and what average employees make. Another would exempt billionaire private equity hucksters from regulation. I can see that these bills are great job extenders for the barons of Wall Street, but how do either of them create a single job in his district?...
You cannot count one job that has been created by Steve Stivers. He has been busy voting for right wing ideological legislation to eliminate Medicare, stop funding Planned Parenthood, do away with aid to the poor, cut Pell grants, overturn the new Wall Street reform bills which protect consumers, etc., etc., etc. This is what happens when you send a former bank lobbyist to Congress.
*** Ohioans are learning many things about Gov. John Kasich---- he is spiteful, mean, sarcastic, vengeful, cocky, and a jerk. (I could go on, and on, and on, and on.....) Now, we see further evidence of how the Ohio Republicans are following Kasich's orders in payback to Bill Seitz because he voted against SB 5.
Well, today the House Republicans unveiled their substitute bill to the Governor’s budget. Sentencing reform was totally removed.....
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Capitol Hill Blue has the results of a recent poll:
...The new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds most Americans want Medicare left alone and oppose cuts in Medicaid and defense.
The only thing they do support is President Obama‘s plan to raise taxes on the rich....
....Some 78 percent oppose the Medicare cuts and 69 percent don’t like the cuts in Medicaid.....
The radical Republican plan is definitely not popular, even though Rep. Paul Ryan continues to try to convince people that seniors should have vouchers.
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