
To that point, check out this Forbes piece on the thousands of dollars she has raked in from finance industry billionaires in recent years. The goodness of God rolls off our tongues when life is full, but proclaiming His goodness when our stories become tragic can feel impossible. 20 of proceeds will be donated to a Scholarship fund in memory of. Politico reported that Sinema is among the members of Congress who received a combined $50,000 from SVB’s political action committee. The goal of this shop is to raise awareness for mental health/illness and suicide awareness.

Some Democrats are blaming SVB’s collapse on Sinema and company’s Trump-era rollback of many of the Dodd-Frank regulations. The measure passed, but this was during the Obama administration and it had no chance of becoming law. It’s one thing to know your story’s general ending and another to know the specifics of how your characters will get there, how their motivations will influence their final actions, and how the theme will prove out.

Bank lobbyists drafted key amendments, which appeared word for word in the bill she supported in the committee and when it reached the House floor. As a member of the House Financial Services Committee, she was a supporter of H.R.992 - The Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act of 2013 - which sought to exempt certain financial instruments from some Dodd-Frank restrictions. Senate, Sinema was party to an early effort by the banks to undo the provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that was passed in the wake of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. And it marks her a shill for the banking industry.”īefore she went from the U.S.

The Daily Beast’s Michael Daly framed Sinema’s dilemma succinctly, noting Monday: “Whether she’s calling herself a Democrat or an independent, her voting record is the same.
