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A Democratic lawmaker wants to force the White House to put their spokespeople, such as Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in front of news cameras twice a week.

Maybe this is what J.P. Morgan & Chase CEO Jamie Dimon had in mind when he trashed Washington for doing stupid shit: A Democratic lawmaker has proposed a bill that would force the White House to hold at least two media briefings a week open to live cameras.

Rep Jim Himes, a Democrat from Connecticut, said his Free Press Act is needed to thwart the Trump administrations overtly hostile attitude toward the press since the early days of the presidential campaign.

The White House had held fewer news briefings lately, in some cases disallowing cameras. President Trump has engaged in a running skirmish with mainstream media outlets, repeatedly calling them fake news.

Himes bill, of course, stands a snowballs chance in hell of becoming law. The Republican-controlled Congress is certain to ignore the bill. Nor would the White House sign it into law.

The only way the bill would stand a remote chance is if Democrats seized large majorities in both branches of Congress large enough to override a presidential veto. Thats virtually impossible.

In the Senate, for example, Democrats would have to win 67 seats, a number they havent achieved since 1962. Right now they hold just 48 seats and face high odds of winning back the chamber in 2018.

Even in the all-but-impossible scenario that Democrats seized commanding congressional majorities, theres a little thing called the separation of powers. The White House would be all but certain to ignore Congress, saying the legislative branch cannot tell the executive branch what to do.

Good luck getting the Supreme Court to side with Congress in a hypothetical showdown with the president. Even now the Supreme Court doesnt allow cameras to cover its own daily business.

On Friday, Dimon, the powerful Wall Street banker, lambasted Washington for holding back the economy.

Since the Great Recession, which is now 8 years old, weve been growing at 1.5% to 2% in spite of stupidity and political gridlock because the American business sector is powerful and strong, he said. What Im saying is it would be much stronger growth had we made intelligent decisions and were there not gridlock.

Read: J.P. Morgans Dimon says bad policies are hurting the average American

The Himes bill probably wouldnt qualify as smart policy in Dimons view of things.

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