The AJC pointed out that "the bill's rollout in Georgia, a swing state that. The Republican nominee is widely expected to face President Joe Biden, who is seeking reelection. The federal proposal comes as the twice-impeached, twice-indicted former president leads the crowded field of candidates for the GOP's 2024 presidential nomination-despite arguments that Trump's "Bie Lie" that the 2020 election was stolen from him incited the Januinsurrection, so under the 14th Amendment, he is barred from holding public office again. 202 in response to right-wing complaints about former President Donald Trump's loss in 2020. "Many of the bill's requirements would replicate Georgia's laws, which already ban outside election funding, require voter ID, and prohibit noncitizen voting," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday, noting that the state's Republicans enacted S.B.
During that event and in an opinion piece for the Washington Examiner, the panel chair heralded the Georgia GOP's Senate Bill 202-a sweeping measure passed in 2021 that led to a "staggering" increase in voter suppression, according to a Mother Jones analysis. introduced the bill during a field hearing for the committee he leads in Atlanta. She has never faced serious opposition before, and even earned bipartisan praise for her experience and record. The reality is Bloom Raskin is an experienced financial regulator who sailed through Senate confirmation votes in the past, serving on the Federal Reserve Board and as Deputy Treasury Secretary. Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Pat Toomey and other Republicans on the committee have received millions in campaign contributions from Oil and Gas and are now parroting concerns made in a letter to Banking Committee leadership from oil industry groups that called out Raskin over her view that the Federal Reserve should forgo further investments in fossil fuels. "Bloom Raskin is an experienced regulator with mainstream views on climate and the future of the fossil fuel industry and she should be confirmed."
It's no coincidence that nearly every Republican member of the Senate Banking Committee has taken over six figures in oil industry campaign cash." said Jordan Schreiber, a spokesperson for Accountable.US. "These attacks from Big Oil and their allies on Capitol Hill against Sarah Bloom Raskin are nothing more than industry's latest attempt to pretend climate change won't impact their business. In advance of the Senate Banking Committee's hearing this morning concerning Sarah Bloom Raskin's nomination for Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision, government watchdog Accountable.US called on Big Oil-backed Senators to drop their opposition, confirm the nominee, and quit doing the bidding of their oil and gas industry donors.
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