It’s easy for Nancy Pelosi to be cavalier when offer legislation that is supposed to help struggling and scared Americans, since she has made some serious money during her decades in Congress, and has no concerns with losing her house, her car, feeding her family, and so forth, not too mention that she draws a government paycheck, can eat at the Congressional building cafeteria, etc
Nancy Pelosi Proposes 1,400-Page Coronavirus Bill Stuffed with Special Interest Goodies
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi debuted a 1,120-page coronavirus rescue bill after Democrats tanked the Senate proposal on Sunday night.
The bill includes a wish list of Democrats’ pet issues including (I’m just listing the block lines, not full descriptions
- Increased fuel emission standards for airlines receiving funds and carbon offsets
- Payment for up to $10,000 in student loans
- Same-day voter registration, early voting, voting by mail, ballot harvesting (it’s much, much worse. It also someone else to return a ballot. Further, it is un-Constitutional to require states to have early voting. 10th Amendment and all)
- Preserving collective bargaining powers for unions
- The expansion of wind and solar tax credits
- Requirements for federal and corporate gender and racial diversity data
- Post Office Bailout
- Automatic extension of nonimmigrant visas.
- Restricting colleges from providing information about citizenship status (I’m surprised they didn’t slip in a provision to get rid of ICE)
- Money for Planned Parenthood
This is their focus. In a long Twitter thread, Senator Tom Cotton slams this
Families and businesses need help now to survive the China virus pandemic. But @SpeakerPelosi walked away from negotiations to write her own bill, full of absurd provisions completely unrelated to the crisis at hand. Here’s what Speaker Pelosi is demanding while Americans suffer:
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) March 23, 2020
He goes on to list crazy stuff in their bill, including the stuff above, and
- For companies accepting assistance, 1/3 of board members must be chosen by workers
- Provisions on official time for union collective bargaining
- Full offset of airline emissions by 2025
- Greenhouse gas statistics for individual flights
- Retirement plans for community newspaper employees
- $15 minimum wage at companies receiving assistance
- Permanent paid leave at companies receiving assistance
What does this have to do with helping citizens? Will Queen Nancy, Handsy Joe, and Comrade Bernie have to provide the statistics for their individual flights? Requiring a $15 minimum wage at all the companies receiving assistance…what will that percent be, especially for small companies: 70%? 80%? 90? Which means they can’t rehire as many people….is a job killer.
As Guy Benson notes “Benson continued, “Source writes, ‘not only are these completely unrelated to the coronavirus epidemic, they could prevent companies from participating in the loan programs altogether—directly causing unnecessary layoffs.’— The Fed Chair says the U.S. could see 30% unemployment, which is worse than the Great Depression. And Democrats want to play these games. It’s no wonder gun and ammo purchases are spiking.
