When was the last time Congress voted against Corporations?

[Indenturedebtor]

I really can't think of anything they've done for years that was actually against Corps and for the people.

Please someone tell me...

[JeffR]

1. Wild guess:

1878.

I could be wrong; it might be earlier than that.

[robinlynne]

2. Well, barbra Boxer voted not to certify the 2004 election, as did the black caucus. Does that count?

[Indenturedebtor]

4. No because it has to be congress as a whole

It's true spirit as a governmental body is shown when there is actually a question as to whether or not something will pass. Taking a "stand" for voters in your district when you and everyone else knows that it's meaningless is... well... meaningless :D

[Selatius]

3. Americans with Disability Act? None of the corporations wanted to pay money for handicapped folks.

Of course, I'm guessing the amount of money they would have to pay out to the handicapped pales in comparison to the amount they would have to pay out if Congress passed the Family Medical Leave Act with a clause that stipulated PAID maternity leave like in other industrialized countries.

[Indenturedebtor]

7. Good One! However I mean one that actually costs Corps.. not expands the job pool

"A qualified employee or applicant with a disability is an individual who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the job in question. Reasonable accommodation may include, but is not limited to:

Making existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities.
Job restructuring, modifying work schedules, reassignment to a vacant position;
Acquiring or modifying equipment or devices, adjusting or modifying examinations, training materials, or policies, and providing qualified readers or interpreters. "

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-ada.html


Some sting to that one, and kudos for going back to 1990 but I mean something that really hurts, and does something for a large swath of the population like say overtime laws, PTO laws, more than a dollar or two raise every 20 years. That sort of thing - actually sticking up for the population.

I can't remember anything like that in a long time... though I guess under my original question it was "anything". 1990 sounds about right.

[Selatius]

9. Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 is another candidate, but it's missing a key provison.

As mentioned before, it does not include paid maternity leave as is standard in industrialized countries. Had it included such a hallmark provision, then 1993 could have been the year.

[Indenturedebtor]

10. As usual all of the more recent measures leave holes big enough

to drive a semi full of money and broken dreams through.

I am just so f-ing fed up with our corporatocracy.

[villager]

5. Sort of a rhetorical question, yes?

Since they never do...

[Indenturedebtor]

8. I'm thinking so... But I wonder when exactly they were completely taken over? n/t

[ControlledDemolition]

6. Never forget this... a two party system is easy to buy! n/t

[Greyhound]

19. And cheap, too. n/t

[Mind_your_head]

11. Great Question!

Never in my lifetime....past or future would be my answer!

D*mn good question!

[Indenturedebtor]

12. Thanks! I was thinking about it at work today and it occured to me that even the MaBell breakup

had massive benefits to all of the offshoots and competitors. I'm only 29, but in my lifetime and from everything I've read I can't really think of anything that the gov't wasn't dragged kicking and screaming to do that definitively put the screws to corps, to the benefit of society.

I wonder if our entire system of government isn't flawed? It seems too easy for gov't to ignore the will of the populace in favor of the will of the wealthy. When we get "lively" every generation or so, they throw us a few crumbs. But other than that, daily business is to fleece the pockets, and consolidate the power of their "real" constituents.

I'm sincerely hoping that someone will prove me wrong...

[Mind_your_head]

13. I hope someone proves your theory wrong too.......

but that "ain't gonna happen"....b/c you are "right on target".....at 29 y/o!

You "figured it out" at a much younger age than I did. Good on you!

(now, whatever our age/station-in-life what do we "do" about it? That's the next question that needs to be answered/addressed.)

[Indenturedebtor]

14. I think that's more an effect of the times than any of my attrbutes

... What do we do? I dunno heh. How about a public lobbying corp to buy back our government? One lobbying group that everyone gives 50 bucks a year to. This lobbying group then runs it's own elections to determine which politicians to give it's money to, and which issues to support.

Sort of like a poll but one that our Corporate Overlords listen to because it has money.

Lol more beer for me :D

Can you imagine? It would be sort of like a government, but one that represents the common man. I must be fucked up lol.

[cali]

15. Lily Ledbetter Act? That definitely was a vote against corporations.

[Indenturedebtor]

17. Oooo good one :D

It definately was! Though I do have to say that it won't amount to much money being taken from the pockets of our overlords... it was a small blow against them.

[Hannah Bell]

16. never. even when they seemed to, they weren't. just against small,

unconnected corporations.

[Greyhound]

18. Probably when this was our President.