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Republicans poke directly at Pelosi with new amendment to the STOCK Act
House Republicans plan to include in their inside trading legislation a so-called “Pelosi provision” to strengthen rules that govern lawmakers’ participation in initial public offerings.
The plan will be part of a package of amendments to the Stock Act expected to be released Tuesday evening. The Senate passed its own version of the ethics legislation last week.
The idea is a shot across the bow at Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The public uproar for Congress to tighten restrictions on lawmaker stock trading came after a CBS “60 Minutes” report, which said the wealthy Pelosi and her husband Paul participated in Visa’s initial public offering while credit card regulation legislation was pending before Congress.
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Pelosi and Poke should never ever EVER be used in the same sentence, WTH is wrong with you?
Bishop on February 7, 2012 at 11:54 PM
Tuna!
SouthernGent on February 7, 2012 at 11:56 PM
now I need to puke !!
burrata on February 8, 2012 at 12:03 AM
unfortunate choice of words…
thirtyandseven on February 8, 2012 at 12:08 AM
Is it just me or did they never actually say what the Pelosi Provision is?
ChrisL on February 8, 2012 at 12:29 AM
That this goes on at all and necessitates votes at this point s/b enough reason to throw them all out, with no exceptions.
May Pelosi’s broom, er hammer, take her far, far away.
Schadenfreude on February 8, 2012 at 12:29 AM
I have many other not so nice uses for that hammer.
arnold ziffel on February 8, 2012 at 12:44 AM
They have to pass it to find out what’s in it !
But whatever is in it, it will be hideously ugly
burrata on February 8, 2012 at 2:44 AM
From the article:
xblade on February 8, 2012 at 3:03 AM
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! {breath} HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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Not gonna cause any outrage on that one, Ms. Democrats Wrote ObamaCare in Such Secret Circumstances that even low-level Democrats didn’t know what was in it!
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BWAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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Somebody left her irony on, Ms. Hammill! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
ExpressoBold on February 8, 2012 at 7:03 AM
There is no way that this law will stop insider trading by Congressmen. The culture of criminality in DC is so deeply ingrained that this is nothing more than a feel-good sop.
CorporatePiggy on February 8, 2012 at 7:14 AM
BigSven won’t touch this comment with his 10 foot pole !
BigSven on February 8, 2012 at 7:21 AM
How about Pelosi inserting exemptions into the minimum wage increase law for American Samoa… Where she and her husband happen to own a tuna cannery?
That is corruption and insider trading of the most disgusting degree.
wildcat72 on February 8, 2012 at 9:06 AM
OMG, that is sweet.
Just when I thought the House GOP had no cojones.
UltimateBob on February 8, 2012 at 9:35 AM
That is what the whole bill is supposed to do….right? The excutive branch part can’t be the Pelosi Provision is. What is unique about the ‘Pelosi provision’ that isn’t in the Senate bill?
ChrisL on February 8, 2012 at 9:55 AM
No they won’t. They don’t have the nads to do this.
They’ll call it “the fluffy poopy pants tickle with a feather bill”
LtT26 on February 8, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Well, if you also include the word “stick….”
CurtZHP on February 8, 2012 at 10:26 AM