Under growing popular pressure from the LaRouche PAC mobilization, “Don’t go home without passing Glass-Steagall,” Congress is nervously approaching the time when President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid want it to adjourn, suicidally for the nation, until mid-November.

Over the past two weeks of intense mobilization, the Congressional sponsors of the existing bills to restore Glass-Steagall have avoided substantive discussions with LPAC organizers on Capitol Hill, and have not moved any action to raise Glass-Steagall on the House or Senate floor. This, although LPAC has clearly been generating additional support for such action; House members have joined the existing bills as co-sponsors, and one has put LPAC’s famous “Glass-Steagall or Die” poster on the wall of his main Congressional office.

These sponsors, as Lyndon LaRouche noted yesterday, are under intense pressure from the Obama White House with its British controllers, NOT to make any move toward a fight for Glass-Steagall — legislation which British representatives have made clear they would view as an American act of hostility to the Empire.

In an interesting sign of the Congress’ fears of adjourning without doing anything about the crash, and having to face their enraged constituents until Election Day, came in the House on Wednesday. Republican leader John Boehner made a motion that the House should not adjourn, basing this on inaction on the issue of tax cuts. To both Pelosi’s and Boehner’s great surprise, 39 Democrats voted with the Republicans not to adjourn. “Democrats Rebuke Leaders on Adjournment Vote,” headlined Politico, after it took Pelosi’s rare personal vote to defeat Boehner’s motion 210-209. The Democrats who did not want to adjourn included many in close re-election races, many relatively conservative Democrats, and half a dozen known supporters of Glass-Steagall.

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