$200 MILLION WENT TO HOUSE MEMBERS TO PASS FAST TRACK – HERE'S WHO TOOK THE CASH

$200 MILLION WENT TO HOUSE MEMBERS TO PASS FAST TRACK – HERE'S WHO TOOK THE CASH

TUE, 6/23/2015 - BY PAOLA CASALE

THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON OP-ED NEWS

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Many think our government is for sale. However, by taking a look at the facts below provided by Open Secrets, it is easy to understand where they are coming from.

Looking back at Friday the 12th, the House voted on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), the controversial bill that gives power to the executive branch to negotiate treaties. TPA limits Congress' ability to better a trade deal by subjecting members of Congress to 90 days of reviewing the trade agreement, prohibiting any amendments on the implementing legislation, and giving them an up or down vote.

TPA passed with a mere 219-211 vote with only 218 needed to pass. The real shocker comes from the amount of money each Representative received for a yes vote. In total, $197,869,145 was given to Representatives for a yes vote where as $23,065,231 was given in opposition.

• John Boehner (R-OH) received $5.3 million for a "yea" vote and was the highest paid legislator.
• Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) received $2.4 million for his "yea" vote.
• Paul Ryan (R-WI) received $2.4 million for a "yea" vote and came in at the third highest paid legislator.
• Pat Tiberi (R-OH) follows Paul Ryan, coming in the fourth spot having received $1.6 million for his "yea" vote.

The fifth highest paid legislator is somewhat of a "hero" in comparison to others. Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) received $1.6 million for a yes vote and only $282,710 for a no vote. Despite his high contribution from those in favor of TPA, he still voted a solid nay.

We also have other hero stories.

• Joe Crowley (D-NY) received 1.3 million for a "yea" vote and only $72,550 for a "nay" vote and he still voted against TPA.
• Patrick Murphy (D-FL) received 1.1 million for a "yea" vote and only $213,360 for a "nay" vote and still voted against it.
• Richard Neal D(MA) received $1.1 million for a "yea" vote and a mere $47,625 for a "nay" vote and still voted against it.

Democrats are not the only heroes in this voting session. GOP members spoke very loud and clear.

• Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) received $541,746 for a "yea" vote and no money at all for a "nay" vote and he still voted "nay!"
• Andy Harris (R-MD) received $254,803 for a "yea" vote and no money at all for a "nay" vote and he still voted "nay".
• Thomas Massie (R-KY) received $250,328 for a "yea" vote and no money at all for a "nay" vote and he still voted "nay."
• Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) received $180,832 for a "yea" vote and no money at all for a "nay vote" and she still voted "nay."

Where did this kind of money come from? Those in favor of TPA were security brokers and investment companies who donated a whopping $11.3 million dollars for a "yea" vote. Big banking companies donated $10.1 million dollars. In other words, Wall Street hashed out millions and millions of dollars to push for the passage of TPA.

Originally published by Op-Ed News

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Watch: Bernie Sanders Shreds Bill O’Reilly’s Smear With A Brilliant Response

When Bill O’Reilly tried to smear Bernie Sanders as a radical socialist who wants the government to fully control the banking system, Bernie Sanders unloaded on him with a brilliant, truth-packed response that shattered the conservative host’s carefully crafted premise.

During a discussion on the need to break up the biggest financial institutions on Wall Street, O’Reilly began, “Teddy Roosevelt did a little of what you’re suggesting, and I think if you present it in a way where it isn’t the government running the economy, then you might get a hearing on it. But unfortunately, socialists, and you’re one of those…”

At this point, Sanders had had enough and jumped in: “Democratic Socialist!” he corrected O’Reilly. “If Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, a good Republican, he would want to break up these huge financial institutions on Wall Street, and a lot of other industries as well, cause we have a huge concentration of ownership in this country that is very dangerous.”

He continued: “Second point, as a democratic socialist, whose view is very similar to many governments throughout Europe, no, I do NOT believe government should control everything. 

But I do believe healthcare should be a right of all people, I do believe college should be affordable to all people, and I do believe that the United States Congress should not be owned by a handful of billionaires!”

Bernie Sanders hit the nail on the head. While Bill O’Reilly and the rest of the Republicans smear middle class champions who want to bring common sense back to our financial system, “as socialists who want the government to control everything”, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

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Watch: Bernie Sanders Schools Rand Paul On Why Healthcare Is A Right

In this astonishing clip, Bernie Sanders destroys Rand Paul for his offensive remarks on American healthcare. The now presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) believes that a “right to healthcare” is another term for slavery. 

“You have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. It means you have the right to come to my house and conscript me. Means you believe in slavery. It means you’re not only going to enslave me, but enslave the janitors at my hospitals, the orderlies, the nurses.”

It is an astonishingly callous statement from someone who dares to call himself a physician (Paul is not a certified doctor).

Sanders then asks a nurse at a public clinic whether or not she feels like she is a “slave”, which she obviously does not: 

“I love my job, I do not feel like a slave.” Sanders then goes on to ridicule Paul’s atrocious remarks, which the panel finds quite amusing.

Rand Paul seems to have a very twisted view on what “rights” are, and appears to believe that it entails forcing people to do things to fulfill those rights. Remember that when the election comes around; this man thinks he can be our president some day.

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New Poll Shows the Bernie Sanders Surge Is Spreading to Iowa

 By Gregory Krieg June 25, 2015

Bernie Sanders is surging in the Midwest.

A new Bloomberg poll out of Iowa shows the independent senator from Vermont closing the gap on Hillary Clinton, with Clinton falling to 50% support among likely Democratic caucus-goers as Sanders jumps to 24%. That margin represents a 16-point bounce from the 42-point gulf that existed between the candidates in early June.

Source: Mic/Bloomberg/Des Moines Register

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