Kane reports: "'Once debate begins, I will ensure that a ban on assault weapons, limits to high-capacity magazines and mental health provisions receive votes, along with other amendments,' Reid said."
Ryan at an August 13, 2012 vice presidential campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa. (photo: Steve Pope/Getty Images)
Senate to Take Up Gun Control After Holiday
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un control will be the first order of business in the Senate when lawmakers return in April from their two-week holiday break.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) formally moved a package of gun-related bills onto the legislative calendar Thursday night, setting up the most serious debate on gun control in Congress in more than a decade.
While it will not include a ban on assault weapons - Reid said Tuesday that proposal has less than 40 Senate votes behind it - the package will include provisions for a universal background check system, stricter federal criminal laws for gun trafficking and provisions to improve school safety.
Coming in the wake of the December massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, the most aggressive provision remains the background check proposal. A bipartisan collection of senators, led by Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), have been trying to reach an agreement on the checks but have hit a stumbling block on how to maintain records for private gun sales.
Reid remained hopeful that the senators could reach such a deal.
"I hope negotiations will continue over the upcoming break to reach a bipartisan compromise on background checks, and I am hopeful that they will succeed," Reid said. "If a compromise is reached, I am open to including it in the base bill.
"But I want to be clear: In order to be effective, any bill that passes the Senate must include background checks."
He also said that the bill will be amended on the floor and will likely take several weeks of debate before it comes to a vote.
"The bill I advance tonight will serve as the basis for opening debate. Once debate begins, I will ensure that a ban on assault weapons, limits to high-capacity magazines and mental health provisions receive votes, along with other amendments," Reid said.
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Wall Street has money for Obama the Wimp.
When are some of these bastards going to jail?
It's sort of like agreeing to be a hitman. If there is no other way to make money they just rationalize the illegal activity and say they have to take the job to support their families.
It's probably easier if you have an MBA because your ethics have been completely dissolved by then. It is the duty of the business to maximize profits.
And last but certainly not least - always shop first at places like Dollar Tree (saves lots to go there before going into grocery store for things not available at Dollar Tree), and seek a good quality used store for clothing, furniture, appliances, etc..
Being addicted to over spending and getting into debt, in order to make yourself feel 'comfortable' and elegant, is crime waiting to happen.
Ever hear of bribes . . . uh . . . I mean humongous campaign donations. The ones that keep the pols -- from Obama on down (okay, "up" if you insist) -- in their cushy offices. All they have to do is continue violating their oaths of office while constantly kissing the keisters of corporate America.
Yeah, I know: it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
Lawmakers aren't stupid enough
To bite the hand that feeds them. Would you go
after someone who lines your pocket with hundreds of thousands of dollars?
Or as I say, "We knew they were whores. We just didn't know what cheap whores they are."
It's amazing but I've heard of congressmen changing their votes for a $15,000. donation. Heck, we could get together and buy a couple of congressmen for ourselves!
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This tells us a lot more about how those markets (among others) are being manipulated.
Everything is a scam!
The whistle blower, in outing immoral and illegal deeds and plans sacrifices self. Such acts are only traitorous toward evil. They demonstrate goodness ... evil (un)laws notwithstanding .
When Citibank announces that its profits are up 42% for this quarter over last year and other banks follow suit with high profit rate increases there's something crooked going on.
Businesses just don't increase profits by those percentages without extraordinary reasons that would have been so important they would be headlines (if the reasons were legitimate.)
The other problem is- when the government reaches a ridiculously small, no-fault agreement with these usurious crooks the fines (however tiny) won't go back to the victims, it will go to the government that facilitates these thefts.
What about the one million Chase "fixed-rate for the life of the loan" credit card customers whose loans Chase "called" in 2009? One million customers who, by timely monthly payments, were living up to their end of the contract?
Sure, last year Chase settled their class action for $100 million; what about those who didn't think it was fair to get only $100 apiece for Chase's crimes, so they "opted out" of the settlement, like me?
Time is running out on attorneys general to do something about Chase's 2009 crimes. And this once, it didn't take a whistle-blower, insider to spot and disclose the crime!
A man rang my doorbell yesterday telling me that my mortgage company had sent him to have me fill out some paperwork.
He had my name and address on a form from a company called NationStar Mortgage and said that I had to fill it all out and sign it.
I have never heard of NationStar Mortgage.
I told him that I was not signing anything from a company that was not my mortgage loan servicer and that if his company had been assigned servicing rights I should have been notified by my current servicer, which I have not been.
Needless to say I refused to sign.
I am approaching 70. All I can think is that maybe people are being sent around with fraudulent documents to try to entrap unsuspecting or elderly people who may not remember who is servicing their loan.
Any ideas?