Kansas Senator Who Wants To Reduce Credit Card Fees Is Tarred as a Communist for His Efforts 

Senator Marshall’s chief of staff tells the Sun ‘if a couple of pencil neck “political operatives” convinced some New York banks to light money on fire in Kansas in an attempt to save their monopoly, God bless ‘em.’

AP/Alex Brandon
Senator Marshall on Capitol Hill, March 16, 2023. AP/Alex Brandon

Another lone senator may be on the cusp of interrupting business in the Senate, as Senator Marshall threatens to hold up passage of the National Defense Authorization Act in the hopes of forcing a vote on his bill targeting credit card fees. For his efforts, opponents of the bill at home are trying to paint him as an LGBTQ-friendly communist sympathizer.

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