The following article by Emily Stewart was posted on the Vox website December 18, 2017:
“What we’ve tried to do is cobble together the votes we needed to get this bill passed.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Sunday said the decision to include a provision in the Republican tax plan that would personally enrich some GOP lawmakers and President Donald Trump came from an effort to “cobble together the votes we need to get this bill passed.” Not exactly a moment of putting country over party.
In a Sunday appearance on ABC’s This Week, Cornyn, the Senate majority whip, was asked by journalist George Stephanopoulos about an International Business Times (IBT) report, which saw Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) switch from a “no” vote to a “yes” after a certain provision that would boost his real estate income was added to the tax bill. Continue reading “John Cornyn doesn’t have a good answer on tax bill loophole that means millions for Corker and Trump”