{"id":432,"date":"2008-09-17T16:01:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T21:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2008-09-17T16:06:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T21:06:33","slug":"lest-we-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/09\/17\/lest-we-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest We Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lest we forget the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 where it all began, I have found some interesting links.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"Vote for the act\" href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00105\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to see the record of the vote for the act. 53 Republicans and 1 Democrat voted for the bill. 44 Democrats voted against the bill.\u00a0 1 Republican voted present.\u00a0 1 Republican did not vote.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"Text of the bill\" href=\"http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=106_cong_bills&amp;docid=f:s900enr.txt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the Government Printing Office version of the 144 page bill.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the innocuous sounding official description of the bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Act to enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, and for other purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The following is the real key to understanding the purpose of the act:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TITLE I\u2014FACILITATING AFFILIATION AMONG BANKS, SECURITIES FIRMS, AND INSURANCE COMPANIES<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is another sound bite you often hear about the bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sec. 101. Glass-Steagall Act repeals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How about the following heading?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Subtitle B\u2014Streamlining Supervision of Bank Holding Companies<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By now you should get the gist of how to interpret Republican double-talk.\u00a0 Remember this when you hear John McCain&#8217;s explanations.\u00a0 Remember that Phil Gramm is one key idea man for John McCain.<\/p>\n<p>What they say sounds innocent and good for us.\u00a0 What they mean is hold onto your wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest we forget the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 where it all began, I have found some interesting links. Follow this link to see the record of the vote for the act. 53 Republicans and 1 Democrat voted for the bill. 44 Democrats voted against the bill.\u00a0 1 Republican voted present.\u00a0 1 Republican did not vote. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}