Sen. Elizabeth Warren Unveils Anti-Corruption Legislation

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By

Reid J. Epstein

Aug. 21, 2018 10:00 a.m. ET

 

WASHINGTON— Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in the latest move positioning herself for a 2020 presidential campaign, on Tuesday proposed sweeping new ethics restrictions for federal officials.

The Massachusetts Democrat’s proposal includes a ban on individual stock ownership by members of Congress, White House staff and federal judges; a prohibition on Americans serving as lobbyists for foreign countries; and a mandate on the release of tax returns by candidates for president and Congress.

Ms. Warren’s legislation, dubbed the “Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act,” is unlikely to become law, while Republicans control Congress and the White House. But it does serve as a vehicle to place the first-term senator at the forefront of the Democratic Party’s resistance to President Trump.

“Washington corruption is not a small problem, and it will not be rooted out with small solutions,” she said.

Ms. Warren’s proposal would apply conflict-of-interest laws to the president and vice president and require them to sell assets through a blind trust.

In the name of transparency, she would require the IRS to release the previous eight years of tax returns for any candidate for president and vice president—and then do so for each year they are in office. The IRS would make public two years of tax returns for congressional candidates, in addition to each year they are in office.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sen-elizabeth-warren-unveils-anti-corruption-legislation-1534860001?mod=cx_politics&cx_navSource=cx_politics&cx_tag=collabctx&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

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31 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

the “Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act”

Did Fauxcahontas include penalties against Federal officials who seek recognition as a Native American when no such status is warranted?

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2 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Did Fauxcahontas include penalties against Federal officials who seek recognition as a Native American when no such status is warranted?

I didn’t see that, but along with a candidate releasing their tax records, maybe they should also release all their medical records and  ancestry DNA testing results.

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Did she self-implode?

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8 hours ago, Randyandyuni said:

Did she self-implode?

Long, long ago.  

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As we said, Warren has provided no actual documentation to substantiate her claim of having Native American blood.

Warren, who was born and raised in Oklahoma, has said that her parents and grandparents, who are now deceased, were the sources of that information.

“I am very proud of my heritage,” Warren said at the time, according to news articles. “These are my family stories. This is what my brothers and I were told by my mom and my dad, my mammaw and my pappaw. This is our lives. And I’m very proud of it.”

In that 2012 campaign ad, Warren said that her parents had to elope because her father’s family didn’t like that her mother “was part Cherokee and part Delaware.”

At one point, Christopher Child, a genealogist at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, said that he had discovered possible supporting evidence. The Boston Globe reported that Child found a newsletter that indicated that Warren’s great-great-great grandmother had been listed as Cherokee on a marriage document in 1894. That would make Warren 1/32 American Indian, he said.

But the Globe later noted in a correction that neither the newspaper nor the genealogical society had seen the alleged primary document, only the family newsletter alluding to it.

“NEHGS has not expressed a position on whether Mrs. Warren has Native American ancestry, nor do we possess any primary sources to prove that she is,” an organization spokesman said in a statement at the time. “We have no proof that Elizabeth Warren’s great great great grandmother O.C. Sarah Smith either is or is not of Cherokee descent.”

Even if that document does exist, it alone would not be enough for Warren to be recognized by the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the Atlantic magazine explained in an extensive analysis of Warren’s claim.

And a DNA test, which Brown and others suggested Warren take, also might not be conclusive, according to a 2016 story in the Washington Post. Nanibaa’ Garrison, a bioethicist who studied genetics at Stanford University, told the newspaper: “It’s really difficult to say that a DNA test would be able to identify how much Native American ancestry a person has.”

Warren still hasn’t offered documentation for her claims.

She again made the point about her family’s stories during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on the day of Trump’s most recent “Pocahontas” dig.

“Look, I learned about my family the way that most people learn about their families,” Warren said. “My brothers and I learned from our mother and our daddy and our grandparents who we are. And that’s it. That’s how we learned it. That’s what we know.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/12/elizabeth-warrens-pocahontas-controversy/

 

 

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All I can say is i hope the real Indian beats the fake Indian in this election.

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2 hours ago, smilesammich said:

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/12/elizabeth-warrens-pocahontas-controversy/

 

 

So inconclusive.  Seems pointless, just like Senator Warren and her farcical bills. 

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1 minute ago, Bill & Katya said:

So inconclusive.  Seems pointless, just like Senator Warren and her farcical bills. 

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No proof has emerged that confirms that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is, as she has claimed, part Native American. Likewise, no proof has surfaced that Warren was previously hired as a professor by any university based on her alleged heritage.

i'm not concerned about her claim that she has native american heritage. many americans have native american ancestry, and they were informed of that ancestry by previous generations. my grandmother and mother have told me as much, i don't have 'proof', but that's the story of my ancestry as it's been told to me. i've also been told that i have family that were slaughtered by native americans, again - i have no proof but that's how the story was handed down. 

i'm would be concerned if she had used this claim to somehow gain a job or degree..which no evidence has been given of that either.

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9 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

i'm not concerned about her claim that she has native american heritage. many americans have native american ancestry, and they were informed of that ancestry by previous generations. my grandmother and mother have told me as much, i don't have 'proof', but that's the story of my ancestry as it's been told to me. i've also been told that i have family that were slaughtered by native americans, again - i have no proof but that's how the story was handed down. 

i'm would be concerned if she had used this claim to somehow gain a job or degree..which no evidence has been given of that either.

You do realize that we are making a joke about her and her silly bills she is proposing to get the camera time.  I could not care less if she was from Antarctica, her moving as far as she can to the Left to outdo Ocasio- Cortez is just stunning to me.  And in the meantime, we have Democrats and their supporters openly calling for open borders, and abolishment of ICE.  Seems like a losing strategy to me.

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16 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

You do realize that we are making a joke about her and her silly bills she is proposing to get the camera time.  I could not care less if she was from Antarctica, her moving as far as she can to the Left to outdo Ocasio- Cortez is just stunning to me.  And in the meantime, we have Democrats and their supporters openly calling for open borders, and abolishment of ICE.  Seems like a losing strategy to me.

the democratic party is certainly not endorsing either.

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2 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

the democratic party is certainly not endorsing either.

collectively? No, but members are endorsing both

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1 minute ago, Randyandyuni said:

collectively? No, but members are endorsing both

i think you're confusing the democratic party with dsa. and i don't know that even dsa is calling for open borders. 

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5 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

i think you're confusing the democratic party with dsa. and i don't know that even dsa is calling for open borders. 

http://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/398786-calls-for-open-borders-wind-up-closing-doors-for-democrats

 

Sixty-four percent said illegal aliens should be sent home and thirty-six percent said they should be allowed to stay. A staggering 53 percent of Democrats polled, however, believe that any immigrant that makes it to America’s borders should be allowed to stay.

 

But despite Democrats saying they are against open borders, the majority of their base says otherwise.

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1 minute ago, Randyandyuni said:

http://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/398786-calls-for-open-borders-wind-up-closing-doors-for-democrats

 

Sixty-four percent said illegal aliens should be sent home and thirty-six percent said they should be allowed to stay. A staggering 53 percent of Democrats polled, however, believe that any immigrant that makes it to America’s borders should be allowed to stay.

 

But despite Democrats saying they are against open borders, the majority of their base says otherwise.

oh i see now, you don't know what 'open borders' means.

Edited August 22, 2018 by smilesammich