GOP led by AOC trying to force Congress to pass stock trading ban for members

[Jake Starkey]

House Republicans join with AOC and use Epstein files playbook to force a vote on stock trading ban: ‘Hell’s frozen over’
‘I think America wants us to pass this,’ Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett tells The Independent​

Republicans draw from Epstein files strategy to force House vote on stock trade ban

‘I think America wants us to pass this,’ Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett tells The Independent

www.independent.co.uk

A group of renegade House Republicans and Democrats deployed the same procedural trick used to force a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files to wrangle a vote on a measure to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) filed her discharge petition to force the vote on her legislation, a proposal that has been supported by an unexpected coterie of members ranging from progressives like liberal darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to archconservatives like Rep. Burchett (R-Tenn.).

“Hell’s frozen over,” Burchett told The Independent about the oddball coalition.

Under the rules of the House of Representatives, a member can file a discharge petition on legislation to force a vote on their legislation as a way to get around Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and hold a vote. Once the petition receives enough signatures, they are locked in.

This type of legislation is necessary and has been a long time coming.

 

[Crepitus]

House Republicans join with AOC and use Epstein files playbook to force a vote on stock trading ban: ‘Hell’s frozen over’​

‘I think America wants us to pass this,’ Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett tells The Independent​

Republicans draw from Epstein files strategy to force House vote on stock trade ban

‘I think America wants us to pass this,’ Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett tells The Independent

www.independent.co.uk

A group of renegade House Republicans and Democrats deployed the same procedural trick used to force a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files to wrangle a vote on a measure to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) filed her discharge petition to force the vote on her legislation, a proposal that has been supported by an unexpected coterie of members ranging from progressives like liberal darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to archconservatives like Rep. Burchett (R-Tenn.).

“Hell’s frozen over,” Burchett told The Independent about the oddball coalition.

Under the rules of the House of Representatives, a member can file a discharge petition on legislation to force a vote on their legislation as a way to get around Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and hold a vote. Once the petition receives enough signatures, they are locked in.

This type of legislation is necessary and has been a long time coming.

That should have been illegal starting in 1776.