How The Federal Government Works

This is one of too many examples of how the corporate federal government works, outside of the Constitution of totally out of public awareness. It is also one of the ways in which the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was passed on 23 December of that year, when the majority in opposition to the Act were already home for the holidays.
It would be interesting to know who were the three that purposefully stayed behind and who is financing them for doing what they did.
Three Members of Congress Just Reignited the Cold War While No One Was Looking By Dennis Kucinich December 16, 2014
Late Thursday night, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a far-reaching Russia sanctions bill, a hydra-headed incubator of poisonous conflict. The second provocative anti-Russian legislation in a week, it further polarizes our relations with Russia, helping to cement a Russia-China alliance against Western hegemony, and undermines long-term America’s financial and physical security by handing the national treasury over to war profiteers.
Here’s how the House’s touted ‘unanimity’ was achieved: Under a parliamentary motion termed ‘unanimous consent,’ legislative rules can be suspended and any bill can be called up. If any member of Congress objects, the motion is blocked and the bill dies.
At 10:23:54 p.m. on Thursday, a member rose to ask ‘unanimous consent’ for four committees to be relieved of a Russia sanctions bill. At this point the motion, and the legislation, could have been blocked by a single member who would say ‘I object.’ No one objected, because no one was watching for last-minute bills to be slipped through.

This post was published at Edge Trader Plus on 19 December 2014.