Re: Dem Abigail Spanberger slams Pelosi for 'failure of leadership' as stock trade ban stalls

On 15 Mar 2022, Rudy Canoza <[email protected]> posted some
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> The old bitch is a crook.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and 
called for new party leadership on Capitol Hill Friday as a bill 
Spanberger sponsored that would ban lawmakers from trading stock while in 
office languished in Congress.

Spanberger (D-Va.), who is facing a close re-election fight in the Nov. 8 
midterms, issued the scathing statement as it became clear that the TRUST 
in Congress Act would not come up for a vote until after Election Day.

“This moment marks a failure of House leadership — and it’s yet another 
example of why I believe that the Democratic Party needs new leaders in 
the halls of Capitol Hill, as I have long made known,” Spanberger said.

The two-term congresswoman went on to claim that support for her bill has 
grown in recent months — but party leadership engaged in “repeated delay 
tactics” to avoid a vote.

“For months, momentum grew in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate to 
finally take a step towards prohibiting members of Congress from day 
trading while on the job. We saw remarkable progress towards rectifying 
glaring examples of conflicts of interest,” Spanberger said.

“After first signaling her opposition to these reforms, the speaker 
purportedly reversed her position. However, our bipartisan reform 
coalition was then subjected to repeated delay tactics, hand-waving 
gestures, and blatant instances of Lucy pulling the football.”

She added the “diversionary tactics” included having the House 
Administration Committee create a new piece of legislation — the 
Combatting Financial Conflicts of Interest in Government Act — that was 
introduced Tuesday.

That bill — which was sponsored by an ally of Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Zoe 
Lofgren (D-Calif), and sought to ban lawmakers, their spouses and children 
from trading stocks — created an immediate split in the Democratic Party.

https://nypost.com/2022/09/30/democrat-slams-nancy-pelosis-failure-of-
leadership-over-stock-trade-ban/