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    Voted Aye

    McGovern (D-MA), Scanlon (D-PA), Neguse (D-CO), Leger Fernández (D-NM), Norman (R-SC)

    Voted No

    Fischbach (R-MN), Roy (R-TX), Houchin (R-IN), Langworthy (R-NY), Scott (R-GA), Griffith (R-VA), Jack (R-GA), Foxx (R-NC)

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        It means they had the votes for a performative opposition vote and Norman was the most needing

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        No. That just means his name wasn’t on the list. Maybe he didn’t need Jeffrey Epstein’s help to fuck kids.

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        Why is everyone giving Norman a hard time? He voted to release. Give the other guys shit.

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          On the one hand, I completely agree, and I think I fucked that up by mentioning him by name instead of the 7 pedophiles that voted it down.

          On the other hand, he’s still a shitbag. If he’s catching strays, fuck 'em. In this instance, he voted for some modicum of sanity. He’s also the guy who pulled out his loaded .38 and put it on the table when meeting with Moms Demand Action Against Gun Violence.

          There’s no humanitarian medals for “guy who didn’t protect pedophile rapists.”

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        When Mexico the Republicans send its their people, they’re not sending their best.

        They’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with us.

        They’re bringing drugs coverups, they’re bringing defending crime, they’re rapists

        and some, I assume, are good people.

        See kids, rhetoric is easy!

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      Why do I immediately assume that dude from South Carolina has already announced he isn’t seeking reelection?

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        Doesn’t look like he’s annouced anything, but he’s not up for re-election until 2026 still. Plenty of time for this constituents to forget.

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      I don’t fully understand American politics so why did only 13 people vote on this?

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        If I understand correctly this was a committee that was voting on pushing the GENIUS act forward so that it could then go on to the larger vote that would actually determine whether it became law.

        The Democrats in this committee tried to add an amendment that required the release of the Epstein files so the vote was on the changes to the bill which the Republicans voted no and will just go on fox news to complain about Democrats not using the proper channels of legislation to get what they want.

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          I guess adding amendments to bills is the American if you look at Trump’s big awful bill. Is is corruption that Republicans can do that but not the Democrats?

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            It’s kinda turned into a “by any means” game since passing legislation is such a bottleneck in their logjammed system. Democrats do megabills with amendments when they’re in power too.

            The Republicans in theory have a point, but in practice any standalone bill would stall, be shot down or lost, with the reasoning from Republicans likely being “we have more critical things to worry about”. And yes, its also extremely hypocritical for the exact reason you said.

            It’s usually not this dramatic though. Absolute fealty to Trump is required from Republicans… We’ve never had a Congress this subservient, not that I can remember, hence the knots and justifications are getting twisty.

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            It happens all the time, I wouldn’t say it’s corruption, it’s more hypocrisy. It’s ok when they do it, but not ok when Democrats do it.

            It’s about what’s relevant to the bill anyway, an amendment about Epstein isn’t really relevant to the bill or the subject of the bill as far as I know so the Republicans wouldn’t be totally wrong to say as much, they’d just be hypocrites but they always are so that’s nothing new. The Democrats were doing it to get Republicans “on record” saying “no” so they could use it against them in the midterm elections, but I don’t see that helping at all when the Republicans can just cry about process and their friendly media will back them up.

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      As a native new yorker (and unfortunately its the part of NY that votes red most times) its really disgusting to see a Republican New Yorker in the list of Nays. Just giving us more names we have to vote out to fucking dredge this swamp.