886
GOP lawmaker caught dumping Medicaid provider stock before megabill vote
(www.rawstory.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
886 points (100.0% liked)
politics
25075 readers
2120 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Remove some Republicans from office via the 14th amendment.
Lead protests. Not just parades but actual disruptive protests
Back left wing candidates
Use any and all procedural tricks to delay things.
other stuff that moderators don't like
I don't understand why literally every Democrat in the Senate didn't line up to filibuster this bill. Booker's performative filibuster was toothless. This could actually have done something to change public policy.
You can't filibuster a bill using the reconciliation process.
In my imagination there are increasingly desperate actions they could do to stop the bill from proceeding. Pull the fire alarm. Start a fire. Cover all the chairs with honey. I don't know. I feel like if it looked like a portal to hell was about to open I would break a lot of norms and rules to stop it
Apparently they’re not even allowed an open floor to talk, but Hakeem Jeffries at least took the opportunity for 08:44
That's the house, and only because it was a bill passed back to the house, after previous passage, to review senate revisions. Otherwise they would have been allowed to debate much more if this was the first time the house had the bill.
That's a procedural rule I wasn't aware of. Thanks for the clarification.
i said this the other day and got downvoted to hell, in addition to people telling me "well they did filibuster it"
Yes. Because it was filibustered for a day.
"They did the thing i wanted but i said they didn't and i don't understand why people don't agree with me"
Why did it only go on a day, why didnt it go longer? There are no rules stating they can't.
You already know the reason, someone else already said why. I'm not going to get drawn into a circlejerk argument with you just because you refuse reality.
We all knew it was going to get passed. But if they did it for two days.. Donald be crying, because he can’t sign it on the 4th. That’s what I was hoping.
I'd rather have people do realistic things than grandstand because it's entertaining.
That stuff that moderators don't like is about all we can do at this point. What legal recourse do we have? Voting? Lmao
How does backing canisates do anything to stop a bill?
What are "moderators" in government?
I meant more generally, so democrats can win elections and then win votes. It's something they should have been doing for the past decade. Look at how the democratic party is treating Zohran for an example of how not to do it.
You fight the battle you're in.
And agian, what are government moderators?
Oh, sorry. I meant the moderators of lemmy.world. If you say anything too spicy, your comment gets removed
Yeah, perfectly reasonable expectation... Sometimes it feels like talking to children on this site I swear.