Posted on 03/24/2020 3:57:35 AM PDT by gattaca
Pelosi’s Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Mentions ‘Diversity’ 32 Times
1,100-page bill would force all corporations receiving aid to fund 'inclusion initiatives' for at least 5 years
The word "diversity" appears 32 times in the coronavirus relief bill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) unveiled on Monday. Pelosi released her plan as critics questioned the priorities of Democratic lawmakers facing the China-caused pandemic.
Senate Democrats voted Sunday to block a coronavirus stimulus package worth up to $1.8 trillion, and continued voting down procedural motions on the bill Monday. Democrats in the upper chamber were reportedly upset that the legislation does not do enough to increase fuel-emissions standards for the airline industry or to provide additional tax credits to promote wind and solar energy.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said Senate negotiations over the relief package were going well until Pelosi imposed herself on the process. Democratic obstruction gave the House speaker time to introduce her own coronavirus relief package in the House. At more than 1,100 pages, the "Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act" is in keeping with the controversial comments Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) reportedly made on a conference call with Democratic lawmakers last week. "This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision," said Clyburn, in reference to the drafting of the House Democratic response bill.
The Pelosi bill focuses on "diversity," for example, more than one might expect from an emergency economic relief package. The plan includes a section on "Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity" that aims to "ensure that corporate boards reflect the diversity and perspectives of the communities and consumers impacted by the hardships due to the coronavirus disease." The word "inclusion" appears 14 times in the text of the bill.
One section of the House Democratic bill, titled "Diversity Report," would establish a congressional oversight panel requiring any corporation that receives federal aid related to coronavirus to provide "diversity data" to congress. The panel would publish a report on its findings the following year.
The required data would include demographic information about the corporation's employees and board members in terms of "race, gender, and ethnic identity." The panel would also demand demographics data on the corporation's suppliers, service providers, consultants, and the various financial institutions utilized by the company.
The "Diversity Report" section also requires companies to compare the salaries of employees based on gender and race and furnish information on the "number of staff and budget dedicated to diversity and inclusion initiatives."
Furthermore, the House bill states that all corporations receiving federal aid "must maintain officials and budget dedicated to diversity and inclusion initiatives for no less than 5 years after disbursement of funds."
The House, meanwhile, is not even in session right now. It would not be able to cast votes on the legislation in the coming days, so any bipartisan deal on a stimulus package is almost certain to be hammered out in the Senate.
Pelosi's decision to inject herself into the conversation had even the talking heads on MSNBC asking, "What was the point of that?" and warning that Democrats risk "overreaching" by demanding left-wing policy items that are "not a part of the coronavirus crisis."
The President will never sign a bill with this crap in it. The contents are now well known everywhere in the Alternate Media. People are at home, and they are scared and anxious. They see what a louse Pelosi and Schumer are, and their DeeperDemo Lapcats. So we are at an ideological stalemate. The best thing the President can and should do is to get everyone back to work and soon. Then say “Northern United States” to Fanzi Nanzy and Chuck U.
Pelosi’s DEMANDS are RIDICULOUS!! Mitch etal BETTER not have ANY of her CRAP in it!!
When all your party stands for is virtue signaling, all you can expect in a stimulus bill are features that don’t actually stimulate the economy, but instead make empty symbolic nods to the Democrats’ odd and ironic ideas of virtue (i.e., diversity, sexual perversion, green energy, entitlements).
Nancy’s bill is what happens when you drag 2 trillion dollars through a whore house.
Sick evil scumbags, TAKE BACK THE HOUSE bury these scumabgs
Here is a “Diversity Report” for you Nancy. The China virus does not discriminate.
Paging Kurt Schlichter. His books were supposed to be tongue in cheek fiction on the course of the US, not a game plan for the Democratics.
Just when you think you couldn’t hate Democrats any more . . . .
She also put nationalizing vote harvesting into the bill.
Surprised the lunatic liberals didnt include confiscation of guns in their manifesto
They are not “empty symbolic nods”; like the “Green New Deal”, they are very real attempts to transfer wealth from the American white and Asian middle classes to those who won’t assimilate economically.
They don’t care about the American people but just about their agenda. I guess they no longer serve the people. Time to vote them out.
“Diversity” is a much exaggerated virtue, if it is a virtue at all. Mostly it is sheer vanity, without basis in fact and celebrated more in the abstract than in the concrete, as no lasting or even short-term good has ever come from denial of competence or exaltation of mediocrity.
The value of a diamond can be greatly altered by failing to observe the grain, and preserving the flaws when it is cut.
I am of the opinion that all the crap in Pelousy’s bill is meant to be a ‘poison pill’ for PDJT. If it even makes it thru the Senate (possible due to spineless Rs) then PDJT will veto it. This gives the CommieCrats and their presstitutes a reason to howl and scream with foaming mouths about how PDJT hates the American people.
We must all write our House Reps and Senators and demand that any non-virus related pork be stripped from the bill.
Diversity officers in corporations? Straight out of the Soviet Communist party playbook. They had political officers in the military, etc., watching to see if anyone strayed from the party line.
Let’s get back to work, the heck with comrade Pelosi.
Yet the Democrat Party DEMANDS CONFORMITY.
Watch what they say. They demand the opposite.
America is being destroyed by diversity.
The UK is already destroyed by diversity.
There can be no co existence that allows America to survive
The only time diversity should be in the bill would be to describe the diverse efforts Trump has directed to save America.
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