Senate Democrats just blocked cloture on a bill that would have stopped lawmakers from buying new publicly traded stocks. The vote was 53-47. Sixty were required. But guess what happened? Republicans dropped Voter ID into it so the Dems would nuke it. 

It was not a vote on final passage. It was a vote on whether the Senate would even begin debate. Every Democrat lined up against it. Republicans got their campaign tape. The public got another press release about “integrity.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did not hide the strategy. On Tuesday, in floor remarks his office billed as exposing a “theatrical farce,” he accused Republicans of “skullduggery” for wiring a voter-ID mandate into an ethics bill.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/congress-keeps-trading-desk-open-senate-dems-sink-lawmaker-trading-ban-53-47

 

The bill was dead before it was even tables — killed by Republican own hands. Fraud, deceipt, thievery — vying agains’t thrd world for most corrupt nation status??