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angrychair

(11,693 posts)
Tue May 20, 2025, 12:10 AM May 2025

16 Senate Democrats vote for GENIUS Act

It was a cloture vote with an empty promise that Republicans will allow a vote on a Democratic amendment but Democrats had to promise to vote for the bill if the amendment passes or not. The Democratic Party's negotiation skills suck.

In exchange for a vote on the amendment, Democrats involved in negotiations said they have committed to support the GENIUS Act even if the amendment fails, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.


This sounds a lot like the CR cloture vote.
Those sixteen Democrats are:
Alsobrooks
Booker
Masto
Fetterman
Gallegos
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Lujan
Ossoff
Padilla
Rochester
Rosen
Schiff
Slotkin
Warner

About all out of fucks to give. My frustration has peaked. The god-damned GENIUS Act is essentially is a fucking gift to billionaires and specifically the Mango Mussolini. If the crypto industry supports it you can be sure it doesn't regulate shit and has more holes than swiss cheese and more loopholes than a hot wheels track.
Why do we keep doing this to ourselves. It also makes what Booker did, just a couple weeks ago, seems performative and hollow.

Reference: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-advances-major-crypto-regulation-bill-bipartisan-vote-rcna207809

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16 Senate Democrats vote for GENIUS Act (Original Post) angrychair May 2025 OP
just now huh? Nimble_Idea May 2025 #1
Lucy is holding the football again. usonian May 2025 #2
Booker again? Perhaps he should stage another sit in. Autumn May 2025 #3
Sickening Emile May 2025 #4
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