McConnell shelves gun bills for banking reform

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY ALEXANDER BOLTON AND SYLVAN LANE - 03/01/18 03:14 PM EST

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is moving to banking reform legislation — not gun control or other responses to the high school shooting in Florida — next week in the Senate.

McConnell has filed a motion to have a procedural vote Tuesday on legislation sponsored by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho). After that McConnell hopes to move to legislation addressing sex trafficking crimes, according to GOP sources.

Legislation addressing the Florida high school shooting, the subject of contentious conversations between President Trump and GOP lawmakers at a White House meeting televised live on cable news Wednesday, will wait.

A Senate GOP aide said a limited bill to strengthen background checks for firearms purchases could come to the floor at any moment as soon as Democrats agree to let it move forward.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/376311-mcconnell-shelves-gun-bills-for-banking-reform

[rickford66]

1. Kids, get in line behind the poor bankers.

[Hortensis]

2. Better think of this more as Syria's government troops coming for them.

Banking "reform" is a euphemism for restructuring the financial industry and institutionalizing new levels of corruption to serve the wealthy by preying on the many.

Remember, one of their first items of business was to repeal the Obama law requiring, among many other important consumer protections, people calling themselves financial advisers to actually give good-faith financial advice, instead of selling innocent customers whatever pays the highest commission. One little clue to their big, big plans.

[SharonAnn]

6. So lifting regulations that protected the citizens is a priority?

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Yup.

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[Frustratedlady]

4. That's where the slime comes from. Shudder!

[agingdem]

5. and this is

why the Orange Slime could speak with such stupid mindless passion about his "commitment" to gun reform...Mitch McTurtle and the NRA sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G...

[Weed Man]

7. McCock needs to make himself very irrelevant.

HE needs to be a minority leader, and then quit.

November can't get here fast enough for him to realize he's about to be a loser and resign so another Kentuckian can take over, hopefully a progressive Dem.

[rickford66]

8. Yup. The bank robbers don't need guns anymore. They own the banks.

[Initech]

9. Can't wait to kick his ass out of the SML position in November!

[benld74]

10. He's such a small, small man

[duforsure]

11. That's why he needs

To be run out of office as the Senate Majority leader. Vote to take the Senate back people, or it'll be more of this.

[Stuart G]

12. McConnell doesn't care about schools and the people in them, because..

he cares more about the banks and the money in them..