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If Democrats take the House back in November, their current ranking member of the Financial Services Committee becomes the chair of the committee, and has the power to subpoena Trumps bank records.
That member is Maxine Waters. Vote.
Meadowoak
(5,517 posts)FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)question everything
(47,271 posts)like a valley girl. (Never realized it until a few days ago).
bottomofthehill
(8,261 posts)If Democrats vote, there will be Democratic Leaders throughout the House, The Speaker has incredible power, the Democratic Leader will set the agenda, the Democratic Whip will have a majority of votes to marshal to move the Democratic message and agenda forward. Along with Cong Watters, there will be:
Cong Nadler will Chair Judiciary ( the battle ground for a womans right to choose)
Cong Thompson will Chair Homeland (where the ICE policies are created and oversight of them rests)
Cong Cummings will Chair Government Reform ( Oversight of the tRump Administration)
Cong McGovern will Chair Rules (Every bill goes through rules and there is a 9/4 split to ensure the Leadership gets what it needs)
Cong Schiff will Chair HPSCI ( No more Nunes obstruction of the FBI and Special Council investigation and subpoena power)
There will be Democratic Chairs in each Committee
VOTE
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Adam Schiff (D-CA ) will become the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee with subpoena powers!
At which time it will be, "Fuck you Devin Nunes and Paul Ryan. Adam is coming after your ass".
Upthevibe
(7,884 posts)(unfortunately, my state also gave you Devon Nunes and Dana Rohrabacher )
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Andrew Janz!
Three times now, I have sent a modest donation via PayPal to his campaign. This next payday, I will send some more!
It will be an uphill climb to defeat Nunes in the VERY RED CA-22, but try we must!
Here: https://www.andrewjanzforcongress.com/
VOTE!!
If you're not registered to vote, do it today! Send money if you can.
calimary
(80,700 posts)California certainly has a few sins on its ledger. Atonement will take forever. After all, seems to me Ronald Reagan was the beginning of the far rights latest attempt to take over the country. He made it appealing and seemingly harmless with his communication skills and that amiable old aw shucks demeanor of his. That kindly old Uncle Dutch thing he had. He put a human face on CONservative extremism. And he energized and legitimized the far right hard-line evangelical movement too, and gave it a patron saint.
Ive long regarded Reagan as the root of all evil. A Trojan Horse of CONservative aggression. All wrapped up in this harmless and dear old man with the crooked smile, the fun sense of humor, and the ready one-liner. When he took power in late 1980, I feared that hed prove to be the most dangerous man in America - because of his considerable gifts in the salesmanship department. He could sweet-talk and sell like crazy, and paint ideas so alluringly that far too man people just bought it all without even test-tasting, kicking the tires, or getting a second opinion. That acting background paid off BIGTIME.
CrispyQ
(36,231 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Cha
(295,929 posts)geardaddy
(24,924 posts)GOTV!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)before the eggs are hatched comes to mind.
CrispyQ
(36,231 posts)Very little has been done to secure our vote. If the dems win, the GOP will claim the vote was tampered with. If the GOP wins, they will claim they won with a mandate.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,764 posts)He'll thumb his nose at it just like he does everything else, all the while claiming some kind of tortured version of Executive Privilege.
LonePirate
(13,386 posts)Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)Let's pray we have our moment.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)do not win elections. We are in a fight for survival, imo. GOTV
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)calimary
(80,700 posts)that means SUBPOENA POWER is ALL YOURS!
Initech
(99,915 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Because she loves Irony.
Chickensoup
(650 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,455 posts)JI7
(89,182 posts)Even joe Manchin types means one more vote for who controls house/senate and if we can get control it would mean people like maxine waters, elijah cummings, elizabeth Warren etc will control commitees.
That would be brilliant
red dog 1
(27,648 posts)Dems HAVE to "take the House back in November"
But we face an uphill battle.
GOP voter suppression laws, GOP voter suppression programs like Crosscheck, vote flipping, especially in states with "paperless" voting machines, deliberate malfunctions of voting machines in urban (Democratic) areas, causing huge lines outside, deliberately not having enough voting machines in urban (Democratic) precincts, causing long lines, and any other way the GOP can steal another election
And don't forget about Putin, either.
Dems MUST register millions of new voters, including those high schoolers who will turn 18 by November 6, and Dems MUST recruit millions of millennials to help turn out the vote, and get their friends to vote as well.
If we get 8 or 10 million new voters to turn out on Nov. 6, we have a chance,
Otherwise, the GOP will likely retain control of the House AND Senate.
Republicans can only steal elections that are close!
Obama proved this in 2008 and 2012.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)So let's exploit that last loophole and save democracy.