“JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made calls to lawmakers on Thursday urging them to support the “cromnibus” spending bill, House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told reporters.
Dimon’s involvement came amid progressive outrage that the House cromnibus included a provision that they said would weaken Wall Street regulations.
“I think we got hurt when Jamie Dimon and the president started to whip,” Waters told reporters after the vote. “That’s when I think we lost some votes.”
“What does it say? It just seems very odd,” Waters said. “It is just very strange that the two of them would be working for the support of this bill.”
The Washington Post first reported news of Dimon’s involvement in the negotiations.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (TYT University), Wes Clark Jr and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) break it down.
*Read more here:
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/226907-jpmorgan-ceo-helped-whip-dem-votes
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Proud to say every representative and senator from my state Connecticut voted against it. While it’s up for Jim Hines but we all know he really works for Goldman Sachs still anyway