SHE WON'T GO!
The Consumer Protection Agency is just about to launch. It’s been one year since the bill was passed to authorize it. The Credit Card companies hate it. The home lenders hate it. The Too Big To Fail Banks hate it. Wall Street hates it. The Republican Party hates it.
And so does Ben Chandler.
Not only did Congressman Chandler vote against reforming Wall Street — the very perps who bankrupted our country and tripled the national debt — he just yesterday joined the Republican Party and voted to further weaken an already stripped down agency.
The House voted Thursday to change how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is managed, passing legislation to install a five-member oversight panel to run the new agency instead of a single director.
The 241-173 vote – which came on the one-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill – also would make it easier to overturn regulations imposed by the bureau, which officially opened for business on Thursday.
Congressional Republicans cheered the prospect of the five-member commission, arguing that one director is too powerful and not sufficiently accountable. The GOP has also attacked the agency for leveling what they say are burdensome regulations.
The bill has no chance of passing the Senate and even if it could, the President of the United States of America has already said he’d veto it.
Duffy’s bill was opposed by most Democrats. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi criticized Republicans for trying to weaken a law that she said contained the “greatest, unsurpassed consumer protection in the history of our country.”
“Today, Republican legislation on the floor … strives to gut the consumer financial protection agency, making it impossible – impossible – to protect consumers,” Pelosi told reporters.
“We do not need a watchdog without any bite,” said Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) on the floor. “Let’s keep the bite in the CFPB.”
A single Republican lawmaker voted against Duffy’s legislation — Walter Jones of North Carolina. Ten Democrats voted for it, including Blue Dog Caucus members Ben Chandler (Ky.), Jim Matheson (Utah) and Dan Boren (Okla.).
That’s our Congressman.
He votes against Health Care Reform, against environmental protections, against consumer protections.
He votes for Insurance Corporations, Wall Street firms and Too Big To Fail Banks.
He votes against women. He votes against starving children. He votes against helping people with HIV/AIDS.
And we vote for him.
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i hear ya, clay. it was all mostly in jest. i was at the coventry show, it was a good time.
i was there too. glad you enjoyed yourself. keep up the good work
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Ben’s votes can be infuriating at times. Having lived in Geoff Davis’s 4th district, and Jim Bunning before Lucas, I am quite happy to be in Ben’s 6th district.
There are angry mob voters here as well, but Ben’s support for Obama’s election did not ultimately cost him re-election. He squeaked out a win and continues to work hard for us. I will support him against the Karl Rove money backing Barr. Let us not forget that prior to Chandler the 6th District Rep was Ernie Fletcher. Even a self-professed blue dog has his work cut out for him in central Kentucky.
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you are correct, it would be terrible to have a Congressman who votes to slash international aid to starving children.
Nothing to do with Ben but it sure is something he needs to think about…
I wish they would vote to take a 5 year hiatus on rebuilding the world and rebuild America.
1. $1B could build a 1,000 schools, $10B could build 10,000 schools across America
2. $10B could build the largest 5 infrastucture projects in America with potential cost overruns
3. $10B could build 142,857 $70,000 homes across America
4. $10B could build build 1,000 hospitals at a cost of $10m each across America.
5. $10B could equip them each hospital with cutting edge equipment
6. $10B could put who know how many million solar panels on homes or office buildings thereby reducing our need for coal
7. $10B could pay for the college educations of 166,666 college students who get a 4 yr college educ ation at a cost of $60,000. Payback in American innovation based on these student would be exponential.
8. $10B could build internet infrastructure for the rest of the United States that doesn’t currently have it.
9. $10B could put 14,285,714 Ipad 2′s in the hands of school children across America. That is one third of the K-12 kids in the United States combined.
10. $10B could put all school books in an electronic format for the Ipad, fund anothe 10m Ipads and cover 50% of all school children and save millions of trees and promote cleaner air (trees sucking up CO2)
Thats $100B to help millions of Americans, create 10′s or 100′s of thousands of jobs, create several million ancillary jobs, rebuild America, and jumpstart this great country.
All this for the cost of one month in Afghanistan
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I know he can be frustrating (and he also lacks the charisma of his grandpa), but he’s a world better than total Ryancare fanatic, Andy Barr.
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[...] Ben Chandler, isn’t really saying a thing. In his defense, he’s been very busy gutting the Consumer Protection Agency and cutting aid to starving children in Africa, so cut him some slack. (Oh, and proposing [...]
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