Democrats on the House Oversight Committee sent letters to oil companies requesting more information about their executives’ meeting with Donald Trump.

Lawmakers demand details of a Mar-a-Lago dinner where Trump promised to ease regulations on the oil industry while asking executives to steer $1 billion to his 2024 campaign.

  • @[email protected]English
    17•2 months ago

    Why? Just abolish Citizens United and make lobbying equate to the bribery it is. Nothing will truly be fixed until that happens.

    • @[email protected]English
      0•2 months ago

      “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

      You can’t take away the last bit.

      • qantravonEnglish
        22•2 months ago

        Giving politicians money and then asking them to pass a bill favorable to you is not “petitioning the government,” it’s bribery. If corps and billionaires want to try to convince the politicians that they should pass the bills they want, they can still do that. There just shouldn’t be money changing hands.

      • @[email protected]English
        11•2 months ago

        But a corporation is not entitled to that. Neither is money. People are.

        Allowing money to count as a petition is limiting the freedom of those without money then.