House Democrats block corporate republican Congress from ramming through latest bank giveaway

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Jake Sherman ?@JakeSherman 4m
Not a great day for House GOP leadership. A financial services package failed on the floor. Needed 2/3 majority to pass. Dems blocked it

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives failed on Wednesday to round up enough votes to approve a bill that would have scaled back various financial reforms.

Lawmakers voted 276-146 in favor of the bill, less than the two-thirds of the House that was needed to send the legislation to the U.S. Senate. Before the vote, Democrats slammed the bill as a Republican effort to chip away at the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law.


read: http://www.investing.com/news/politics-news/u.s.-house-fails-to-approve-bill-diluting-dodd-frank-law-322500

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Rep. Keith Ellison @keithellison · 40m 40 minutes ago
House Democrats defeated a bill today to weaken Wall Street reform: http://ellison.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-ellison-statement-on-defeat-of-bill-to-weaken-dodd-frank …

[WhiteTara]

1. Go Nancy Pelosi! Go Progressive Liberal Democrats!

Pigs - 0 Humanity - 1

[Mass]

2. So they will pass it in a few days with a rule.

I guess McCarthy still cannot count.

[bigtree]

5. well, they tried to suspend the rules to pass it today

...hiding bank-friendly legislation in a mega-package.

Today's vote required a two-thirds majority, though.


Rep. Keith Ellison @keithellison · 2h 2 hours ago
Bill to weaken Dodd-Frank fails! RT @RepCloakroom: H.R. 37 has failed – 276 Yeas, 146 Nays

[Cha]

3. Haha teabaggers fascists. thanks bigtree

[rhett o rick]

4. k & r. Thanks for posting. nm

[lamp_shade]

6. HAH!!!!

[Faryn Balyncd]

7. Good work. We need to make it stick. And continue to expose the GOP as the enemy of Americans.

[jwirr]

8. Good for our side. Keep fighting - we all need to hang together here for the next 2 years.

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