{"id":8103,"date":"2018-03-16T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=8103"},"modified":"2018-03-16T09:54:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:54:02","slug":"next-time-wall-street-needs-bailout-say-critics-remember-names-of-these-16-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/16\/next-time-wall-street-needs-bailout-say-critics-remember-names-of-these-16-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Time Wall Street Needs Bailout, Say Critics, Remember Names of These 16 Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"field-wrapper-attribution\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-date field--type-datestamp field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><span class=\"pb-timestamp\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">March 15, 2018\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<h4>&#8216;An ugly reflection of Wall Street&#8217;s political clout in both parties, purchased through billions in political spending over many decades.&#8217;<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-authors\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"grouping-prefix\">by\u00a0<span class=\"pb-byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/jon-queally-staff-writer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jon Queally, staff writer<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"shr_canvas2\" class=\"shareaholic-canvas shareaholic-ui shareaholic-resolved-canvas ng-scope\" data-app-id=\"6840204\" data-app=\"share_buttons\" data-title=\"Next Time Wall Street Needs Bailout, Say Critics, Remember Names of These 16 Democrats\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/03\/15\/next-time-wall-street-needs-bailout-say-critics-remember-names-these-16-democrats\" data-summary=\"\">\n<div class=\"ng-scope share_buttons\" translate=\"no\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-container shareaholic-ui no-print flat  block horizontal mini\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-wrapper shareaholic-ui\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-animation-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-heading custom\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ng-binding ng-scope\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-button-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"discourse-comments-link\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-img field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"caption-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_large\/public\/headlines\/17_democrats_wall_street_giveaway.jpg?itok=618X1XFP\" alt=\"\" width=\"955\" height=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-main-caption field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p><em>Support for &#8216;Bank Lobbyist Act&#8217; by these Democrats, said Public Citizen, is an &#8220;ugly reflection of Wall Street\u2019s political clout in both parties, purchased through billions in political spending over many decades.&#8221; (Image: Public Citizen \/ Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remember these names the next time Wall Street tanks our economy and taxpayers are left to bail out the Big Banks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was the declaration by the progressive advocacy group Public Citizen late Wednesday after 17 members of the Democratic caucus in the U.S. Senate joined with Republicans to pass a sweeping deregulatory banking bill, derisively referred to as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/03\/06\/massive-handout-sails-through-senate-big-banks-send-democrats-and-gop-sweet-thank\">the &#8220;Bank Lobbyist Act&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by critics.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Sen. Angus King (I-Maine),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00054\">16 Democrats<\/a>\u00a0joined a unified Republican caucus in approving the so-called &#8220;Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act&#8221;: Michael Bennet (Col.), Tom Carper (Del.), Chris Coons (Del.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Doug Jones (Ala.), Tim Kaine (Va.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Claire McCaskill (Mont.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Gary Peters (Mich.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), Jon Tester (Mont.), Mark Warner (Va.).<\/p>\n<p>The explanation for the lawmakers&#8217; support for the bill, said Public Citizen, isn&#8217;t hard to explain or understand:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Washington insiders are telling a story about centrist Democrats up for reelection aiming to demonstrate their commitment to bipartisanship,&#8221; said the Robert Weissman, the group&#8217;s president, in a statement. &#8220;But that fairy tale is upside down: among the public, there is in fact overwhelming bipartisan opposition to Wall Street deregulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Public Citizen was hardly alone in expressing its frustration with the 16 Democrats and Sen. Angus King, Independent of Maine, who caucuses with them:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-cta-change\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content-prompt clearfix\">\n<div class=\"slim-header-content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" data-cta-slim-header=\"&lt;i class='fa fa-info-circle'&gt;&lt;\/i&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Did you find this article useful? &lt;\/strong&gt; Support our journalism.&lt;a href='https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/donate\/free-and-independent?refcode=winter18_cta2' target='_blank' class='btn text-center'&gt;Donate Today&lt;\/a&gt;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-copyright-cond\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-copyright field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><em>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 15, 2018\u00a0by Common Dreams &#8216;An ugly reflection of Wall Street&#8217;s political clout in both parties, purchased through billions in political spending over many decades.&#8217; by\u00a0Jon Queally, staff writer Support for &#8216;Bank Lobbyist Act&#8217; by these Democrats, said Public Citizen, is an &#8220;ugly reflection of Wall Street\u2019s political clout in&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/16\/next-time-wall-street-needs-bailout-say-critics-remember-names-of-these-16-democrats\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8104,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions\/8104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}