You should have noticed that the measure was under fire by the president elect and defeated....
Silly question.... Where was all the indignation when the Democrat speaker of the house refused to allow FBI agents with a warrant into the house offices to search a Democrat's office for evidence of bribery and corruption ???????  

I think your screen name says it  "old"..who was the last Democratic Speaker of the house, Tip O'Neil?  Oh waite, was it the Wicked Witch of the West, NP??

I think the issue back then was a question of separation of powers, and given the performance by the present Head of the FBI, I suspect the suspicions were warrented, warrant or not.  

Wait a minute, gotta untie my tongue, forked as it is.

The Congressional office they wanted to gut this time actually by most accounts is non partisan..They would bag a Donkey or an Elephant.

Trippah wrote on 01/03/17 at 19:48:56:



I haven't been following this. What exactly is the name of what they are talking about, so I can look it up?

Just looking at this

investigative unit of the Congress that watches out for wrong doing?


Dude, if someone wants to eliminate something that Clearly isn't working, we should not be too quick to say they are wrong.. let's consider this,,


investigative unit of the Congress that is SUPPOSED to watch out for wrong doing, but is too corrupt to be a law enforcement or ethics protection unit.



How Congress Quietly Overhauled Its Insider-Trading Law : It's All ...
NPR › sections › itsallpolitics › 2013/04/16
Apr 16, 2013 - That's what happened when Congress moved to undo large parts of a popular law known as the STOCK Act last week. A year ago, President Obama signed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act into law at a celebratory ceremony attended by a bipartisan cast of lawmakers.
Congress tells court that Congress can't be investigated for insider ...
https://theintercept.com › 2015/05/07 › c...
May 7, 2015 - ... Representatives claimed that an SEC investigation of congressional insider trading should be ... The legal team led by Kerry W. Kircher, who was appointed House General Counsel



They just pass laws to protect themselves. It's public knowledge. But, reelection of the crooks who are screwing us just keeps happening.
Please note who should be so proud.

I don't know, whenever I was in Amherst or N'Hampton, it was either as a Reservist using the libraries or a geek going to the art museum or antiquing.  I did see a few large cars but they didn't stop to socialize - at least not with me.  The money (endowments) of those schools is mind boggling.  
One of my co-workers was a Smith grad, but as she uniquely and rarely spoke of it, "I was the pretty black girl in a sea of white".  Went because of scholarships (brains and blackness).  She was also a great person, active and devout Christian, and faced down all the criticism that came her way because she rode the B&B surf to an education she otherwise couldn't have gotten.  She did note (to get back on track) that none of her classmates kept up close connection when they went on to rich husbands, family coorporations and high level government positions.

Trippah wrote on 01/03/17 at 19:48:56:

So job 1 is to gut the internal investigative unit of the Congress that watches out for wrong doing?  I hope all who voted Elephant are proud.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-04-08-government-creditca...
(Link from a favorite,  ultral-Liberal site)

We ALL, Know of the Abuses, of, OUR, Tax Dollars spent, for the personal pleasure, of the people abusing the system.

WHO, are the people doing that ?  It is the Fox, 'guarding', the Hen House ?    And what is the penalty, (When has ANY  Penalty been Applied?)  So the people, saying their are abuses.   ARE, the people that, ARE, abusing.

Clean them ALL out, and start over with,  HONEST, people !

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 01/04/17 at 12:12:25: