GOP Senators Push To Let Debit-Card Companies Rip People Off Fails

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Source: Huffington Post

The measure “would have been a travesty” for consumers, an advocate said.

Congressional Republicans’ mad rush to repeal Obama-era rules ended with a whimper Thursday, when the Senate failed to repeal regulations that aim to protect consumers from being cheated on prepaid debit cards.

The period for invoking the Congressional Review Act, which Republicans have been using to undo Obama administration rules before they take effect, expired on Thursday. But the debit-card bill failed to get a Senate vote because it didn’t have enough support to pass, according to a Senate source.

Republicans have used the Congressional Review Act to roll back rules on such things as a ban on internet companies selling your browsing history without permission, and limits on coal pollution in rivers. But as the period to use the act drew to a close, senators seemed to lose their taste for it. A repeal of methane rules for drillers on federal lands failed Wednesday, 49-51, after three GOP senators defected.


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[tenorly]

1. Their lobbyist deities will not be pleased.

And I don't think their first-born will suffice anymore.

[mr_lebowski]

2. We need 2 GOP defectors in the Senate, people ... McCain, Burr, Graham, Collins ... need 2

It would change the entire situation we're in right now ... if we could just wrest back Senate majority control. We Dems should be pulling a full-blown charm-fest on these guys/lady ... offer chairmanships, whatever it takes. Get them to do the right thing ... someone needs to have SOME power to reign in the Marmalade Shartcannon ...

Senate in Dem Majority hands sends the RIGHT MESSAGE to a frightened Country right now ...

[progree]

3. I don't get it. 2 Repubs becoming Dems makes the Senate 50-50. Would still be in Repub control

thanks to VP Pence, who is also the President of the Senate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate

We had this situation for awhile early in the Bush years, IIRC.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. The party in the majority selects the Chairs of the committees from their party

They cannot "offer chairmanships" to the minority party.

The issue in 2018 is that Democrats have more seats to defend in the Senate (from the "1/3rd" that are up that year), so it will be a slog to maintain what we have, let alone try to get any pickups.

[Bengus81]

5. Oh oh...David Pudue of Georgia is in trouble with his master TSYS!!! Bawhahahhaaaaa!! n/t