Outgoing Sen. Glenn Grothman takes his outspoken conservatism to Congress

Good Neighbor Jimmy,

Yes, "Lickspittle." Really. No kidding.

You didn't witness the frothing-at-the-mouth Hate America Firster suffering the full ravages of his WDS fever screaming, "Fox Lies!" over and over again. 'Twas on Fox.

The juice flying from this proglobotic freak's mouth would've made Sylvester proud.

GDHM

Who are you referring to? and what is "proglobotic"?

His district, elected him, all right.
Have you been looking for real estate there. You would fit in very nicely.

Rep Moore said that as a joke.
Look up the word joke in the dictionary. Did the r teachers at your Christian High School let you read dictionaries, or are there too many dirty words in it.

the right side,

Gwen Moore's classic "Is we is, ... or is we ain't gonna git out the vote?" was seriously asked and definitively answered this last electoral go-round. Wasn't it?

Thanks for the memories. The subsequent snortgargle startled Good Dog.

GOOD DOG, HAPPY MAN

Who won reelection to a District 31 seat's in the Wi State Senate.

Not fair!!! You are asking for those fact thingys.

Grothman: addicted top government assistance.
Living off the taxpayers his entire career.

Sorry but this was too easy set up "Unless you are an individual dependent on government assistance it's not in your financial interests to vote for the Democratic Party."

Citizens United says that Corporations are Individuals. GOP just put back into the budget plan the right to have Investment Bankers be covered once again by Tax Payers if their high derivatives casino gambling backfires on them. You must mean Individual Multinational Corporation or Investment Banker. You better do your research on what brought the world economy down and it was not people on food stamps.

This is now what GOP Put into the Budget Bill (Welfare for Corporations)

After four years of twisting arms in Congress, Wall Street may have finally found the opportune moment to reshape financial regulation.

A flurry of legislative deal-making surrounding the federal budget has opened a window of opportunity for bank lobbyists to challenge the Dodd-Frank Act, the sweeping regulatory overhaul passed in response to the financial crisis. With the clock ticking on a budget bill — lawmakers have vowed not to shut down the government, but need to act by Thursday night — banks are seeking to tuck their proposals into the giant federal spending package.

Whether they succeed remains an open question. As of Tuesday afternoon, some Democrats and consumer groups retained hope that they could fend off the Wall Street effort.

The fight has centered on elements of Dodd-Frank that address the culprits of the financial crisis, including the sort of derivatives trading that helped push the insurance giant American International Group to the brink of collapse in 2008. One bill would amend the so-called Volcker Rule, a centerpiece of Dodd-Frank. Another bill that lawmakers plan to include in the government funding plan was essentially written by lobbyists for Citigroup.

If included in the final spending bill, the proposals would represent the greatest threat yet to Dodd-Frank, the most comprehensive regulatory overhaul since the Depression and one of the Obama administration’s signature legislative achievements. Other than a tweak here or a delay there, Dodd-Frank has largely survived a surge of Wall Street lobbying.

The legislative changes are only one front in Wall Street’s attack on Dodd-Frank. Wall Street has also lobbied the regulators who are putting Dodd-Frank into effect, with varying degrees of success.

The latest effort to reshape Dodd-Frank, which critics blame for crimping the economy, illustrates Wall Street’s renewed sway in Washington six years after the crisis shook the county and the global economy. It also epitomizes a textbook Washington play: use a must-pass bill, on the eve of the holidays, as a vehicle for changing unrelated policies.

The proposed changes to Dodd-Frank are legislative weapons in the broader fight over a spending plan known as the Cromnibus. That measure is the blending of an omnibus spending bill, which must pass by Thursday evening to keep the government open through September 2015, and a continuing resolution for certain agencies, a short-term spending measure that would provide funding only into early next year.

Here is a rundown of the main Dodd-Frank issues that may be in play over the next day or so. The list is based on information learned from people briefed on the legislative negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

¶ The bill that Citigroup helped draft: This bill would repeal one of the more contentious provisions in Dodd Frank, a requirement that banks “push out” some derivatives trading into separate units that are not backed by the government’s deposit insurance fund. The proponents of the push-out rule argued that it would isolate risky trading from parts of a bank eligible for a government bailout.

The provision exempted many derivatives from the push-out requirement, but some Republicans have long proposed eliminating the provision altogether.

In late 2011, Citigroup floated a compromise. The bank’s lobbyists sent around a proposal that simply exempted a wider array of derivatives from the push-out plan.

As The New York Times reported last year, lawmakers adopted nearly every word of Citigroup’s plan in drafting a bill. The bank’s recommendations are reflected in more than 70 of the 85 lines of that bill.

“I am disgusted that in a back room deal, some members and lobbyists for the largest banks are trying to undo a seminal component of the Wall Street Reform Act,” Representative Maxine Waters, the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, said in a statement on Tuesday. “This legislation, which according to the New York Times was primarily authored by lobbyists at Citigroup, would be a huge gift for Wall Street’s largest banks.”

The House approved the bill last fall, with bipartisan support. But the bill died in the Senate, where lawmakers were reluctant to roll back Dodd-Frank. The Treasury Department also opposed the bill, warning that it could leave the nation vulnerable again to excessive financial risk-taking.

The White House has previously threatened to veto this bill and others that take aim at the core of Dodd-Frank. But with a government shutdown on the line, the White House may not be as willing to fight the measure.

In a past statement, a Citigroup spokeswoman noted that the bank “has been a strong supporter of financial reform, including Dodd-Frank.” But when it comes to the push-out rule, she said, it is “widely agreed” that it “does absolutely nothing to create a safer financial system.”

¶ Budget of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Republicans have long put a target on the trading commission, which is at the center of Dodd-Frank rule-writing. Lawmakers have discussed, in the past and again with the latest federal spending talks, whether to hamstring the agency through budget cuts.