This is no way to fight Trump. Over 50 Democrats give Trump a gift to shred the first amendment.
This is no way to fight Trump. Over 50 Democrats give Trump a gift to shred the first amendment.
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, California Senator-elect Adam Schiff vowed he wouldn’t be intimidated by President-elect Donald Trump.
Well, that’s good.
But then Schiff has to explain his and fifty other Democratic House votes in support of the GOP-led Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act.
It smells like intimidation to me.
Or worse.
It would be worse if they actually believed in it.
The bill was widely condemned by human rights and civil rights groups as an effort to crack down on free speech and Trump’s ideological opponents.
If passed by the Senate and signed by the president the law would give Trump the unilateral power to declare any organization that criticizes him as a terrorist organization and then outlaw it.
256 House representatives voted in favor, shy of the 270 needed to pass the bill.
Over 200 Republicans along with 52 Democrats supported the bill, and one Republican joined the 144 Democrats who opposed it.
Who were the Democrats who voted for this crap?
Colin Allred
Nikki Budzinski
Yadira Caraveo
Ed Case
Kathy Castor
Jim Costa
Angie Craig
Henry Cuellar
Sharice Davids
Don Davis
Debbie Dingell
Lois Frankel
Jared Golden
Vicente Gonzalez
Josh Gottheimer
Josh Harder
Jahana Hayes
Steny Hoyer
Marcy Kaptur
Greg Landsman
Susie Lee
Mike Levin
Kathy Manning
Lucy McBath
Grace Meng
Gwen Moore
Jared Moskowitz
Frank Mrvan
Donald Norcross
Frank Pallone
Jimmy Panetta
Chris Pappas
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Pat Ryan
Adam Schiff
Brad Schneider
Hillary Scholten
Kim Schrier
Brad Sherman
Elissa Slotkin
Eric Sorensen
Greg Stanton
Haley Stevens
Marilyn Strickland
Tom Suozzi
Emilia Sykes
Shri Thanedar
Norma Torres
Ritchie Torres
Juan Vargas
Gabe Vasquez
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Although it failed two receive the two-thirds vote to pass last week, Republicans in the House have revived their efforts to pass it.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s weekly schedule shows the so-called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act bill is scheduled for a vote tomorrow Wednesday.