Huffington Post: “For all the anger among progressives about a Wall Street bailout provision that made its way into the just-passed $1.1 trillion government spending bill, there’s been little attention on the person who put it in there. Meet Congressman Kevin Yoder (R-KS).”
“Yoder, a second-term congressman whose largest contributors are in the finance industry, introduced the provision last summer. It was literally written by Citigroup executives, but Yoder took their language and rolled it into an amendment to a spending bill in a House subcommittee meeting. It got swept into the year-end spending package because it ‘was within the scope of negotiations’ on it, according to an Appropriations Committee aide.”
Wonk Wire: Congress quietly ends medical marijuana ban
