{"id":707707,"date":"2026-09-30T20:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=707707"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:02:37","slug":"congress-keeps-the-trading-desk-open-senate-dems-sink-lawmaker-trading-ban-53-47-not-what-it-seems-at-first-glance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=707707","title":{"rendered":"Congress Keeps The Trading Desk Open: Senate Dems Sink Lawmaker Trading Ban 53-47 (not what it seems at first glance)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Senate Democrats just blocked cloture on a bill that would have stopped lawmakers from buying new publicly traded stocks.<\/strong> The vote was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/senate-stock-trading-voter-id-bill-democrats-block\/\">53-47<\/a>. Sixty were required. But guess what happened?<em>\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>Republicans dropped Voter ID into it so the Dems would nuke it<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was not a vote on final passage. It was a vote on<em><strong> whether the Senate would even begin debate.<\/strong><\/em> Every Democrat lined up against it. Republicans got their campaign tape. The public got another press release about &#8220;integrity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did not hide the strategy. On Tuesday, in floor remarks his office billed as exposing a &#8220;theatrical farce,&#8221; he accused Republicans of &#8220;skullduggery&#8221; for wiring a voter-ID mandate into an ethics bill.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/congress-keeps-trading-desk-open-senate-dems-sink-lawmaker-trading-ban-53-47\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/congress-keeps-trading-desk-open-senate-dems-sink-lawmaker-trading-ban-53-47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The bill was dead before it was even tables &#8212; killed by Republican own hands. Fraud, deceipt, thievery &#8212; vying agains&#8217;t thrd world for most corrupt nation status??<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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?\u00a0Republicans dropped Voter ID into it so the Dems would nuke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=707707\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707710,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707707\/revisions\/707710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}