You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

0
14

[–] sinjinsmythe 0 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago 

Look them up for yourselves. www.govtrack.us . Sanders introduced Paul's House bill into the Senate. Neither bill was passed and the text of both is exactly the same. Paul reintroduced the bill in 2012 where it passed the House but was never passed in the Senate. Why would you just believe some loser on a blog instead of doing a quick bit of research...?

This was one of the comments on Starve's link. Anyone care to actually research this before making proclamations?

0
5

[–] Yorn 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I was paying attention to the news at the time. The House version made it to the Senate and was "scaled back" by Sanders. It was even in the news that he scaled it back at the request of the White House, Treasury and others: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/business/12regulate.html?_r=5#story-continues-1

I wasn't commenting on the blog post but the general assessment that Sanders had backtracked on specific important changes in 2010.

0
0

[–] Sir-Real ago 

It was scaled back so it would actually get passed. He watered it down to a point where the House will actually let it through which is better than doing absolutely nothing. Ron's proposal wasn't going to make it through the House nor Senate.