Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) this month blamed Republicans for preventing Congress from enacting legislation that would make it easier for state-licensed marijuana businesses to access financial services. Yet Schumer himself has played a leading role in blocking the SAFE Banking Act, which passed the House last year with support from 106 Republicans and has bipartisan backing in the Senate.
Schumer, who insisted that his own marijuana bill take priority and warned that approving the SAFE Banking Act would make federal legalization harder, wants reformers to forget that history of obstruction. Schumer's striking attempt to dodge responsibility for his own actions easily qualifies him for my annual review of the year's highlights in blame shifting. Here are the rest.
Omnibus objections. During the December debates over must-pass, end-of-the-year spending bills, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R–Ky.) complained that Democrats were "trying to jam in unrelated items," including "liberal nonsense" such as marijuana banking reform. Yet Congress has been engaging in such reckless lawmaking for decades, including the years when McConnell was the Senate majority leader, and the gargantuan spending packages he ultimately supported this year were rife with "unrelated items."
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