Correcting the Record: your shitty, watered-down bill is a band-aid on a bullet hole. It does NOT ban stock trading. It bans Members of Congress from *BUYING* stocks but not *SELLING* them. Nice loophole.
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Today I voted to ban Members of Congress from selling and trading individual stocks. But House Republicans took a broadly nonpartisan issue and inserted politics—provisions from the Save America Act.
I am calling this a recycled political stunt.
I want to let you all know very clearly and unequivocally that if there were just some of these issues, they would be enough to be disqualifying.
I voted for the National Defense Authorization Act to strengthen our national defense while improving the pay, housing, and childcare for our service members and their families.
The measure would functionally eviscerate mail voting by forcing Americans to include photocopies of their IDs alongside their mailed ballots,
Plenty of constituents of yours at a variety of different colleges and universities that you represent … right now comply with what has been described by others as the most strict voter ID law in the country by using their college ID. But…
Part of affordability is making sure consumers get a fair shake.
Surveillance pricing essentially gives Big Brother a look into your shopping cart. It’s incredibly invasive, and it’s expensive.
Surveillance pricing weaponizes your data against you.
Will continue to serve the interests of Donald Trump, not the American people
The second approach is to make the industry’s brazen attempts to buy our political process a campaign issue.
They are spending money in order to get a pro-crypto bill passed through the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
We should, in this election, make crypto’s purchase of our political process, AI’s purchase of our political process, a major campaign issue.
This bill is in front of the Senate because the industry paid for it.
The main goal is we want to end this war, stop spending this money, stop putting our servicemembers’ lives at risk.
This is a strategic blunder on a massive scale.