Banking Legislation Advances In U.S. Senate

The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (Senate Bill 2155) was approved Wednesday by the United States Senate. The vote was 67 for, 31 against, and 2 non voting. The voting roll call by name:

Alexander (R-TN), Yea Baldwin (D-WI), Nay Barrasso (R-WY), Yea Bennet (D-CO), Yea Blumenthal (D-CT), Nay Blunt (R-MO), Yea Booker (D-NJ), Nay Boozman (R-AR), Yea Brown (D-OH), Nay Burr (R-NC), Yea Cantwell (D-WA), Nay Capito (R-WV), Yea Cardin (D-MD), Nay Carper (D-DE), Yea Casey (D-PA), Nay Cassidy (R-LA), Yea Cochran (R-MS), Yea Collins (R-ME), Yea Coons (D-DE), Yea Corker (R-TN), Yea Cornyn (R-TX), Yea Cortez Masto (D-NV), Nay Cotton (R-AR), Yea Crapo (R-ID), Yea Cruz (R-TX), Yea Daines (R-MT), Yea Donnelly (D-IN), Yea Duckworth (D-IL), Nay Durbin (D-IL), Nay Enzi (R-WY), Yea Ernst (R-IA), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Nay Fischer (R-NE), Yea Flake (R-AZ), Yea Gardner (R-CO), Yea Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay Graham (R-SC), Yea Grassley (R-IA), Yea Harris (D-CA), Nay Hassan (D-NH), Yea Hatch (R-UT), Yea Heinrich (D-NM), Not Voting Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea Heller (R-NV), Yea Hirono (D-HI), Nay Hoeven (R-ND), Yea Inhofe (R-OK), Yea Isakson (R-GA), Yea Johnson (R-WI), Yea Jones (D-AL), Yea

Kaine (D-VA), Yea Kennedy (R-LA), Yea King (I-ME), Yea Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay Lankford (R-OK), Yea Leahy (D-VT), Nay Lee (R-UT), Yea Manchin (D-WV), Yea Markey (D-MA), Nay McCain (R-AZ), Not Voting McCaskill (D-MO), Yea McConnell (R-KY), Yea Menendez (D-NJ), Nay Merkley (D-OR), Nay Moran (R-KS), Yea Murkowski (R-AK), Yea Murphy (D-CT), Nay Murray (D-WA), Nay Nelson (D-FL), Yea Paul (R-KY), Yea Perdue (R-GA), Yea Peters (D-MI), Yea Portman (R-OH), Yea Reed (D-RI), Nay Risch (R-ID), Yea Roberts (R-KS), Yea Rounds (R-SD), Yea Rubio (R-FL), Yea Sanders (I-VT), Nay Sasse (R-NE), Yea Schatz (D-HI), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Nay Scott (R-SC), Yea Shaheen (D-NH), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Yea Smith (D-MN), Nay Stabenow (D-MI), Yea Sullivan (R-AK), Yea Tester (D-MT), Yea Thune (R-SD), Yea Tillis (R-NC), Yea Toomey (R-PA), Yea Udall (D-NM), Nay Van Hollen (D-MD), Nay Warner (D-VA), Yea Warren (D-MA), Nay Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay Wicker (R-MS), Yea Wyden (D-OR), Nay Young (R-IN), Yea

The bill now proceeds to the House of Representatives. If it passes the House, then it would be sent to the President for a signature.

Comments

[Chanson de Roland]

My, my, and I thought that Democrats were for just and truth and good governance and for the people, while Republicans were corrupt fools, who are in the bag for big business, especially the big banks. It seems that I was wrong in that all of them, Democrats and Republicans, at least as parties, are in the bag.

As the late Gore Vidal said: ”There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren must have had a stroke, as she watched her Democrats crawl into the bag with the Republicans.