WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Elaine Luria voted in favor of the Equality Act (H.R. 5), a bill she cosponsored, guaranteeing explicit and permanent non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people in credit, education, employment, housing, jury service, and in accessing federally-funded programs.
“This long-overdue legislation codifies the values that are central to our democracy: justice, fairness, and equal protection under the law,” said Congresswoman Elaine Luria. “The LGBTQ+ community has lived without basic civil rights protections for too long, and today’s vote means we are one step closer to ensuring that no one is denied access to their constitutional rights because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. I will always be an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and the rights of all Virginians.”
The House passed the Equality Act by a vote of 224-206.
The Equality Act would amend existing civil rights law — including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Jury Selection and Services Act, and several laws regarding employment with the federal government — to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics. The legislation also amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination in public spaces and services and federally funded programs on the basis of sex.
Paul Plante says
That’s all HORSE****!
The LGBQT+’s have ALL the same protections that any other and every other AMERICAN citizen has, which are basically nothing, at all.
WHY are the LGBQT+’s being made into a SPECIAL: CLASS of citi8izen with more rights that a disabled veteran has in this country, which are nothing?
Emily Dickenson says
EXACTLY CORRECT!!! This is all ‘woke’ culture BullS**T, designed to further divide communities. If you are an American citizen, you benefit from the US Constitution. All you “special” folks need to put your big girl/big boy panties on and get on with your lives, and stop stirring the hatred pot. SMDH.
Paul Plante says
Sadly, while it should be true that under the Constitution, we are all equal, as we can clearly see here, the reality is far different, which brings us to this MYTH that we all have representation in the United States House of Representatives, the so-called “people’s house” which under Nancy Pelosi and Elaine Luria is the house of those who can pay the freight to buy themselves some representation.
According to the Constitution, we are supposed to have one representative for 30,000 people.
So how many people is Elaine Luria the representative for?
According to the published statistics, the population of Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District is 710,769 souls, a far cry from 30,000.
And in 2018, Elaine Luria won the election with just 139,571 votes.
The population of Northampton County was 11,885 persons in 2019.
And in 2019, the population of Accomack County was 32,673.
So that accounts for 44558 souls out of the 710,769 souls in Congresswoman Luria’s congressional district.
And how many LGBQT+’s are there in either Northampton or Accomack Counties?
What percentage of the population do they comprise?
Fifty percent?
Seventy-five percent?
And of the entire 710,769 souls in her congressional district, how many are LGBQT+’S?
Is everybody in Virginia an LGBQT+?
devon says
Sometimes I wonder if you purposely misdirect.
The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (originally titled Article the First) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that addresses the number of seats in the House of Representatives. It was proposed by Congress on September 25, 1789, but was never ratified by the requisite number of state legislatures. As Congress did not set a time limit for its ratification, the Congressional Apportionment Amendment is still pending before the states. As of 2021, it is one of six unratified amendments.
In the 1st United States Congress, James Madison put together a package of constitutional amendments designed to address the concerns of Anti-Federalists, who were suspicious of federal power under the new constitution. The Congressional Apportionment Amendment is the only one of the twelve amendments passed by Congress which was never ratified; ten amendments were ratified as the Bill of Rights, while the other amendment (Article the Second) was ratified as the Twenty-seventh Amendment in 1992. A majority of the states did ratify the Congressional Apportion Amendment and, by the end of 1791, the amendment was just one state short of adoption. However, no state has ratified the amendment since 1792.
The amendment lays out a mathematical formula for determining the number of seats in the House of Representatives. It would initially have required one representative for every 30,000 constituents, with that number eventually climbing to one representative for every 50,000 constituents. However, there is some agreement that the last line contains a scrivener’s error[1] (see Mathematical discrepancies). As the amendment was never passed, Congress has set the size of the House of Representatives by statute. Congress regularly increased the size of the House to account for population growth throughout the 19th century until it fixed the number of voting House members at 435 in 1911, where, aside from a temporary increase to 437 members from 1959 through 1962 after Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the Union, it has remained.
The population of the United States reached approximately 308.7 million in 2010 according to that year’s nationwide census. Consequently, the number of representatives in the House could have grown to over 6,000 under the terms of this amendment.[2][3][4]
So, they passed a law which set the number. No mystery. Leaned that in school
Paul Plante says
devon, let me tell you something – you are one damn smart dude, putting all of that to print as you did, for what purpose I do not yet know, and I am hoping you will stay around, sort of like an on-line panel discussion like they used to have on Meet The Press back when, to help us all understand just what relevance you see any of that having to the fact that:
1) Regardless of everything you posted, which I too learned in school, not being a moron, idiot or dummy, because it is pretty basic citizenship, 5th grade stuff if not earlier, I have no civil or human rights in the United States of America because I gave evidence of endemic public corruption in the State of New York involving its health department which has been corrupt going back to 1978 and still is, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
2) I reside in a congressional district formed around myself like feed lots are formed around herds of cattle where as luck of the draw would have it, the person in charge of that congressional district, and hence my life, happens to be a BLACK NATIONALIST, BLACK SUPREMACIST DEMOCRAT;
3) As a BLACK NATIONALIST, BLACK SUPREMACIST DEMOCRAT, the political platform of the person in charge of the congressional district I have been stuck in like a cow in a feedlot is based upon the following:
I wanna ride with my niggas see them all get figures
I wanna see a righteous capitalist, if it’s possible for one to exist
Dead presidents can’t represent me
Not when most of them believe in white supremacy
3) I’m a heteronormative WHITE male with a stable, productive, law-abiding nuclear family who is not a Democrat and wouldn’t be if my life depended on it;
4) As a heteronormative WHITE male who is not a Democrat but has been stuck in the c0ngressional district where the person in charge is a BLACK NATIONALIST, BLACK SUPREMACIST DEMOCRAT, the thought or idea that I personally have representation in the house of representatives, regardless of anything you posted, which came from a grade school civics book, is ludicrous and laughable; and
5) What I did say to the Congressman is as follows:
Dear Congressman:
As this new year begins, I hope it finds you well, and I would like to take this opportunity to THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONFIRMATION in a May 22, 2020 e-mail to me from your regional representative Madison Wellman on the record and for the record the fact that with respect to my civil and human rights being stripped from me by the Town of Poestenkill in your Congressional District in retaliation for my having given evidence of endemic corruption in Poestenkill to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there will be no aid or comfort coming my way from the federal government, which is something I was first informed of in early 1992 by an FBI agent named Tom Dauenhauer with whom I had been involved with in the Hobbs Act investigation of endemic public corruption in Poestenkill and Rensselaer County.
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Pretty straight forward, I would say, and especially this following:
In that conversation with FBI agent Dauenhauer, which occurred on Broadway in Albany in front of the Post Office building where the FBI was at that time located, the FBI agent took pains to explain to me just how stupid I had been in trying to blow the whistle on public corruption in New York state, and since he was in a mood to teach, I figured I might as well stay for the whole lesson, which included a primer on how I was sold down the river by an assistant U.S. attorney named Barbara Cottrell, in exchange for her name being placed on a list of appointees to a federal judgeship, and how evidence I had provided of corruption in Rensselaer County and Poestenkill had been destroyed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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What does any of what you have posted, which proves that you did pay attention in school, at least for a while, have to do with the fact that a BLACK female Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of New York named Barbara Cottrell sold me down the river so she could get her name on a list of people to be federal judges?
So, with respect to your statement, “(S)ometimes I wonder if you purposely misdirect,” where exactly do you see any misdirection taking place, other than your post above, that is, where you recite a bunch of grade school civics that has no possible relevance to the fact that in the United States of America, as a disabled veteran, I have lived without basic civil rights protections for far too long, and until that is recognized and rectified, we will never be one step closer to ensuring that no one is denied access to their constitutional rights because of their sexual orientation as a heteronormative male or their gender identity as a white heteronormative male?
Please edify
Paul Plante says
So, yes, people, as devon says, way back on June 18, 1929, the Permanent Apportionment Act capped House Membership at the level established after the 1910 Census, so that today, the people of Virginia’s 2d Congressional District have one so-called “representative,” a sworn Pelosi Democrat, for 710,769 souls.
So of those 710,769 souls, who is really being “represented” in the House of Representatives from Virginia’s 2d Congressional District, besides the LGBQT+’s whose rights Congresswoman Luria if fighting so hard for?
And here, let us go back to FEDERALIST No. 52, titled “The House of Representatives,” from the New York Packet to the People of the State of New York by either Alexander Hamilton or James Madison on Friday, February 8, 1788, where we had as follows:
As it is essential to liberty that the government in general should have a common interest with the people, so it is particularly essential that the branch of it under consideration should have an immediate dependence on, and an intimate sympathy with, the people.
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That. people, is what it was supposed to be in the beginning, but is it that, anymore?
Do the Democrats who own the House of Representatives today have any kind of a common interest with the majority of the people of the United States who are not Democrats, and who do not wish to be a Democrat?
Wouldn’t that answer truthfully be in the negative, given that on December 17, 2020, Gallup polling found that only 31% of Americans, less than a third, identified as Democrats?
So, under the control of the minority faction known as the Democrats, who in reality represent less than a third of the American people, does the House of Representatives under Nancy Pelosi have an immediate dependence on, and an intimate sympathy with the majority of the American people who are not Democrats?
And as we see in this very thread, of course they don’t, which takes us to FEDERALIST No. 55, “The Total Number of the House of Representatives,” from the New York Packet to the People of the State of New York by either James Madison or Alexander Hamilton on Friday, February 15, 1788, to wit:
THE number of which the House of Representatives is to consist, forms another and a very interesting point of view, under which this branch of the federal legislature may be contemplated.
Scarce any article, indeed, in the whole Constitution seems to be rendered more worthy of attention, by the weight of character and the apparent force of argument with which it has been assailed.
The charges exhibited against it are, first, that so small a number of representatives will be an unsafe depositary of the public interests; secondly, that they will not possess a proper knowledge of the local circumstances of their numerous constituents; thirdly, that they will be taken from that class of citizens which will sympathize least with the feelings of the mass of the people, and be most likely to aim at a permanent elevation of the few on the depression of the many; fourthly, that defective as the number will be in the first instance, it will be more and more disproportionate, by the increase of the people, and the obstacles which will prevent a correspondent increase of the representatives.
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And as we clearly see today, the charges exhibited against it back then today are quite true, in that the Democrats in charge of the House of Representatives are most assuredly an unsafe depositary of the public interests because they not only do not possess a proper knowledge of the local circumstances of their numerous constituents who are not Democrats, they really don’t give a flying **** about them, as they are taken from that class of citizens who dol sympathize least with the feelings of the mass of the people who are not Democrats, and they most assuredly aim at a permanent elevation of the few on the depression of the many, which takes us to an OpenSecrets article entitled “Prolific fundraising gives Pelosi the edge in speaker election” by Karl Evers-Hillstrom on November 16, 2020, where we have Democrat political reality presented to is as follows:
Still, amid turmoil within her caucus, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is not expected to face opposition when Democrats choose their leaders this week.
Many Democrats have tried, and failed, to challenge Pelosi for the role of top House Democrat.
The lack of a challenger this time around signals that while House Democrats are stung by their 2020 losses, the caucus isn’t strong or united enough to choose a new leader.
Then there’s Pelosi’s ability to bring in campaign cash.
No other Democrat can say they’ve mustered anything close to the amount of money Pelosi raised for the party in 2020.
That matters in an era where positions of power in Congress — whether they’re leadership roles or committee assignments — come at a price.
Pelosi’s joint fundraising committee, the Nancy Pelosi Victory Fund, raised a whopping $23.7 million through September 2020, up from $3.7 million through the entirety of the 2018 cycle.
It transferred $20 million to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Democrats’ campaign arm.
Pelosi’s campaign committee transferred another $1.6 million to the DCCC.
Then there’s Pelosi’s leadership PAC, PAC to the Future, which contributed the maximum $10,000 to nearly every House Democrat running in a remotely competitive race.
Those are just committees with Pelosi’s name on them.
Pelosi also hosted numerous high-dollar fundraisers that brought in millions of dollars for Democrats, including a June event for wealthy donors featuring celebrities including John Legend and Jennifer Lawrence.
The committee for the event, Hold the House Victory Fund, raised $7.5 million for the DCCC and 30 frontline House members.
Other House Democrats in leadership positions raise big money for the DCCC but they aren’t close to Pelosi.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) each gave around $1 million between their campaigns and leadership PACs.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who oversaw impeachment inquiries as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent roughly $900,000 to the DCCC.
Schiff used his elevated profile to raise $10 million from small donors in the 2020 cycle, an incredible amount for a Democrat in a deep blue district.
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There we see Democrat Adam Schiff, the Congressman of Disneyland and Hollywood, using his bogus impeachmnt of Trump as a real slick fundraising tool for the Democrats, who sell our national government to the highest bidders, like the well-heeled LGBQT+’s who can afford to pay the freight to get some representation of their issues in Nancy Pelosi’s “people’s house,” where money talks and **** walks, which takes us back to that article for more, as follows:
Members of Congress are expected to pay “party dues” if they want to remain on their preferred congressional committees.
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WHOA?
Party dues?
To be the representative of the 710,769 souls of Virginia’s 2d Congressional District, Elaine Luria has to pay party dues to the Democrat party?
My goodness, what an interesting concept!
So, if she is paying party dues to the Democrat party, then really, people, whose interests is she really representing in Nancy Pelosi’s “people’s house,” where it is pay as you go for people like Elaine Luria if they want to get ahead as a Democrat, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
Any member angling to become chair of a committee must bring in significant funds, and they are expected to raise even more money once they become chair.
That encourages committee chairs to take large PAC contributions from industry players aiming to gain influence with the committee on key issues.
Some members gain cache within their caucus by spending hours calling wealthy donors and asking them to donate to the party, activity that doesn’t have a paper trail like direct campaign contributions.
Often called “dialing for dollars,” the practice has received criticism for effectively turning lawmakers into telemarketers.
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So no wonder Elaine Luria is pandering to the LGBQT+’s, because that is where the money is!
So yes, people, isn’t Democrat democracy just grand?
And the only difference between people like Elaine Luria and Nancy Pelosi versus the working girls on Dupont Circle in Washington is in what it is they are selling access to.
Paul Plante says
As can clearly be seen in this following communication on 17 January 2021 from myself as a heteronormative, white male with a stable, productive and law-abiding nuclear family to U.S. Congressman Antonio Delgado, 1007 Longworth HOB, Washington, DC 20515, as a heteronormative white male who is a disabled combat veteran, with respect to values that are central to our democracy: justice, fairness, and equal protection under the law, I am entitled to none of that as someone who stood up for this country in combat, and as can be seen from the communication to Congressman Delgado, as a disabled veteran, I have lived without basic civil rights protections for far too long, and until that is recognized and rectified, we will never be one step closer to ensuring that no one is denied access to their constitutional rights because of their sexual orientation as a heteronormative male or their gender identity as a white heteronormative male, to wit:
Dear Congressman:
As this new year begins, I hope it finds you well, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your confirmation in a May 22, 2020 e-mail to me from your regional representative Madison Wellman on the record and for the record the fact that with respect to my civil and human rights being stripped from me by the Town of Poestenkill in your Congressional District in retaliation for my having given evidence of endemic corruption in Poestenkill to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there will be no aid or comfort coming my way from the federal government, which is something I was first informed of in early 1992 by an FBI agent named Tom Dauenhauer with whom I had been involved with in the Hobbs Act investigation of endemic public corruption in Poestenkill and Rensselaer County.
In that conversation with FBI agent Dauenhauer, which occurred on Broadway in Albany in front of the Post Office building where the FBI was at that time located, the FBI agent took pains to explain to me just how stupid I had been in trying to blow the whistle on public corruption in New York state, and since he was in a mood to teach, I figured I might as well stay for the whole lesson, which included a primer on how I was sold down the river by an assistant U.S. attorney named Barbara Cottrell, in exchange for her name being placed on a list of appointees to a federal judgeship, and how evidence I had provided of corruption in Rensselaer County and Poestenkill had been destroyed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
He then told me that he had been ordered to have no contact with me, and his advice to me at that point was quite explicit: I had very powerful political enemies in New York, and that as a result, I would be wisest if I would run somewhere far from here and go into hiding, because while I was still here, they would remain relentless in their efforts to do me harm in as public a manner as possible to make me an example to discourage anyone else who would think of doing as I dared to do, which was to blow the whistle on corruption in Rensselaer County and Poestenkill.
And my life has been made into a living hell ever since, because I am not a runner.
Thank you for confirming that that is not going to change for me in this lifetime if the federal government has any say in the matter.
As to your suggestion that I try working with the Town of Poestenkill for a solution, when it is the Town of Poestenkill that is engaged in retaliation against me to make my life a living hell, I would respond that that is quite impossible.
Respectfully,
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So how come these LGBQT+’s are entitled to something I am not entitled to as someone who is not gay or queer or a lesbian or a bi or a trans?
Why am I a second-class citizen as compared to them?
What is it that makes them superior to me, other than their ability to raise huge amounts of cash to purchase the favors of someone like Elaine Luria?
Sara says
Equality Act is a bunch of BS. Did you actually read it? Not all about the LGBT. So get your representative to read it. Would not trust your representative.
Paul Plante says
Is that perhaps aimed at me?
If so, I would be more than happy to respond.
As to actually having a representative in Congress, as I stated above, that is a myth, not an actuality or reality.
I am one person out of 710,597 souls in my so-called Congressional district, and as it works out, the person in Congress representing the Congressional district I got stuck in does not represent people like me who have white skin and are heteronormative males.
In fact, here is a video of the person who represents the Congressional district I got stuck in, who is being touted as the next Obama, giving an impassioned political speech reminiscent of the style of Obama, to his political base, which comprises some 147,873 souls out of 710,597 souls in my so-called Congressional district:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM7JzOCFIZE
As to his impassioned political speeches, as I say, in the style of Obama, The New York Post, in a puff-piece article highlighted some of his more classic intellectual lines such as Congressman Delgaldo questioning the morality of capitalism:
I wanna ride with my niggas see them all get figures
I wanna see a righteous capitalist, if it’s possible for one to exist
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Those are the lines that got him into the United States House of Representatives, and these are the lines that are going to propel him into the white house, first as VP to Kamala Harris, and then, as president, to wit:
Dead presidents can’t represent me
Not when most of them believe in white supremacy
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As it works out, in this lifetime, I happened to be born with the wrong skin color at the wrong time to be that skin color, which takes us back to these famous lines of his that will be immortalized by being chiseled in stone on a monument or government building in Washington, D.C., to wit:
Look like we only goin’ from chains to cuffs
Still niggas still locked up stuck on stuff
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So you can see that with real important stuff like that on his mind, and by the way, Nancy Peloso is said to be quite ga-ga over those lines, only wishing she was really Black so she could do them the justice they deserve, he doesn’t have any time left for an old, heteronormative white man like me, and that is just how it all goes.
Sometimes you’re the windshield, and some times, well, as it works out, you’re the bug.
Paul Plante says
And while we are on the subject of the MYTH of representation in the House of Representatives under the control of the tyrant Nancy Pelosi for those of us American citizens who do not cleave to the Red flag of the Democrat party, or drink their KOOL-AID, being loyal Americans, let us go to an article in The Intercept entitled “Here’s How Much the Democratic Party Charges to Be on Each House Committee” by Ryan Grim and Aída Chávez on September 3 2019 for an inside look at the foetid, pestilential swamp that the House of Representatives under Nancy Pelosi really is, a great big whore house to put it bluntly, which is why Elaine Luria is pandering money from the LGBQT+’s in exchange for “SPECIAL” status which puts them above a common, heteronormative white male like myself who refuses to buy what I already fought and bled for as a military veteran, where we have as follows:
House Democrats are woefully behind on dues owed to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, according to an internal party document provided to The Intercept.
The rank-and-file’s lagging participation in the party’s money chase is being made up for, however, by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s prolific buckraking.
By the end of June, she had raised the DCCC more than $43,000,000.
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Now, check out that figure, people, and ask yourself this question: WHO got sold out so that Nancy Pelosi could raise that kind of money?
WHAT DID NANCY PELOSI SELL IN EXCHANGE FOR $43,000,000?
Getting back to that article, it continues as follows:
Otherwise, only 11 party members had paid their dues in full, according to the document, a July draft of the “Member Dues Report” for the 2019-2020 election cycle.
The delinquency doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t pay at some point during the cycle (though some certainly won’t), but the DCCC, naturally, would prefer to have the money as early as possible, for budgeting and planning purposes.
Members, meanwhile, prefer to hold on to their campaign cash as a signal of strength, to deter potential opponents considering a bid.
Party members are doing no better in the DCCC’s points system, a complex, lesser-known ranking that rewards a variety of activities Democrats can do to hold the majority.
The “DCCC Points Program,” as it is dubbed in an internal document, rewards members for their involvement in recruitment efforts and kicks them points if they raise money for the party’s House campaign arm, vulnerable incumbents, and candidates vying to flip swing districts.
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So how much of her time in Congress is spent worrying about people in low income areas like Northampton County when she has to raise some REAL BIG BUCK$ for the Democrats, especially now that she just BOUGHT herself a seat on the Homeland Security Committee, which is a hell of a lot more expensive than the big Mercedes-Benz?
Getting back to the reality of Elaine Luria being in Congress, the article continues as follows:
Power is accumulated in the House by raising and dispersing money to colleagues, a dynamic pioneered by Pelosi’s quasi-mentor, the late Rep. Phil Burton, who once held Pelosi’s seat; it’s now a bipartisan practice.
This has been formalized with the DCCC’s decades-old practice of asking members to pay “dues” to the party committee in charge of reelection efforts and reallocating that money to contested races.
Democrats in leadership positions, or who chair so-called money committees, are required to pay higher dues than back benchers.
Members are also given a target amount of money they are expected to raise directly for the DCCC, which is separate from their dues payment.
Members of Congress who pay their dues and hit their targets are rewarded with better committee assignments in the future, and more favorable treatment of legislation they author, than members who shirk their dues.
Members who don’t pay, for instance, are less likely to have their bills or amendments get a floor or committee vote.
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So when we are told by people that, “OH, YEAH, YOU HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS,” for the majority of us, that is rank BULL****.
Getting back to it:
The dues for the 2020 cycle, according to the DCCC dues document, range from $150,000 at the low level to $1,000,000 for the speaker of the House.
The document lays out the price of particular committee assignments.
Leadership posts for the second-, third-, and fourth-ranking Democrats — currently Steny Hoyer, Jim Clyburn, and Ben Ray Luján — range from $900,000 down to $700,000.
The next tier of leadership, which includes Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries, DCCC Chair Cheri Bustos, and others, costs just $575,000.
Lower-ranking members of leadership owe between $400,000 and $500,000.
That’s less than the chairs of exclusive committees have to chip in. Those four — Richard Neal, chair of Ways and Means; Frank Pallone, chair of Energy and Commerce; Nita Lowey, chair of Appropriations; and Maxine Waters, chair of Financial Services — owe $600,000 each for their gavels.
On those so-called money committees, like Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce, even freshman members are asked to pay higher dues.
That’s because those committees have jurisdiction over effectively every major industry, giving members a leg-up in demanding checks from corporations who need — or oppose — legislation before the panel.
It is also valuable for industries to have committee members write letters to agencies they oversee.
Chairs of committees not lucky enough to oversee commercially prosperous industries owe just $300,000 in dues and have a listed goal of raising $300,000, compared to the money committees’ $1.2 million.
Indeed, even vice chairs of money committees owe more than chairs of regular committees.
Yvette Clarke, vice chair of Energy and Commerce, and Terri Sewell, vice chair of Ways and Means, owe $400,000 each.
Subcommittee chairs on money panels owe as much as chairs of plebeian committees: $300,000.
An individual seat on a money committee, meanwhile, will run a member of Congress $250,000.
Sad sack rank-and-filers not privileged enough to sit on a money committee owe just $150,000.
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By way of comparison, a 2020 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Maybach price started at $173,000 MSRP.
So how much is Elaine Luria paying in dues for her seat on the Homeland Security Committee?
And where is she getting the money from?
Was she making millions while in the Navy?
Or was she born rich?
Getting back to political reality once more, we have:
Rep. Kathy Castor, a Florida Democrat, is chair of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, the panel that Pelosi created in lieu of the Green New Deal committee demanded by Ocasio-Cortez.
She owes just $300,000 for that gavel.
It’s a good deal, because without the chairmanship, she’d still owe $250,000 for her single seat on Energy and Commerce.
Democratic leaders must not see much money to be made in the climate crisis.
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And there we have it, people, the MYTH of representation in the U.S. House of Representatives under Nancy Pelosi.
Paul Plante says
So, yes, people, under Nancy Pelosi, the ART OF THE SHAKE-DOWN is very much alive and well in the HOUSE OF ILL-REPUTE as the U.S. House of Representatives, which should be festooned with red lights identifying it for what it is, a whore house, is known outside the Washington, D.C. beltway, and it is amazing how cool these younger generations in America are with that – PAY TO PLAY!