Posted on 02/11/2009 12:49:50 PM PST by Syncro
Congressman Gives Speech in Front of Pelosi's Office: 'There Are More Shady Deals Going on Behind Closed Doors'
Chairman of Republican Study Committee Rep. Tom Price blasts congressional leaders for not making the stimulus bill negotiations open to the public.
By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
2/11/2009 1:59:36 PM
President Barack Obama has proclaimed his administration will be more open than the previous administration. However, his counterparts in the House and the Senate aren’t following suit.
The Washington Post has reported that negotiations between House and Senate Democrats have resulted in a stimulus bill with a price tag of “about $789.5 billion.” This agreement raised the ire of Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., and he went outside of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office to express it.
“My name’s Tom Price and I represent the Sixth District of Georgia and [am] the privileged chair of the Republican Study Committee,” Price said. “It’s now noon on Wednesday. I’m standing outside the office of the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. The door is closed. We just heard news break there’s been an agreement between the House and the Senate on the non-stimulus bill."
Negotiators were slated to meet later in the day. However, since news of a deal was leaked to the media, Price questioned if there were “shady deals” going on.
“It’s curious because Republicans were invited to a meeting they said at 3 o’clock this afternoon,” Price continued. “What this means is there are more shady deals going on behind closed doors -- without the public, without Republicans in attendance.”
The Georgia congressman had also called on congressional leaders to televise the House-Senate negotiations. However, as much as the press has helped the Obama administration trumpet a new era of transparency, there has been little call from the television media for these negotiations to be televised publicly.
“As the House and Senate move to negotiate the final text of the so-called stimulus bill, I have called on Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make good on that promise and allow any and all House and Senate negotiations to take place in an open and public forum,” Price wrote in a Feb. 11 blog post for Red State. “By allowing television cameras in the room as negotiations take place, we can provide the transparency American taxpayers expect.”
Price also urged people to visit the Republican Study Committee’s Web site.
Congressman Gives Speech in Front of Pelosi's Office: 'There Are More Shady Deals Going on Behind Closed Doors'
bttt
Why were the Republicans, our reps, left out? This bill should not be passed if that is the case.
Because Specter, Snowe, and Collins sold them out for 40 pieces of silver.
He’ll probably get censured for that.
The “stimulus” plan should be renamed the “Welfare Expansion Act of 2009”. It will vastly increase federal spending, but will do next to nothing to alleviate the current, government-caused, economic crisis.
If the Obama administration had any common sense, it would eliminate mark-to-market accounting. If Congress and the president had brains, they would eliminate the federal income tax and all its excess baggage, replacing it with a national sales tax.
The above two actions would result in an unprecedented economic boom.
Glad someone has the cojones to call it as they see it. Now only if hundreds of them did it...
I CALL FOR TELEVISED HEARINGS on EVERY CHANNEL!! Period..
The House GOP better stick to its guns and vote NO.
Thos TRAITORS need to be kicked out of the party for starters.
these are the type of people we need to fight and this is how we need to fight...fight hard, fight dirty and continue to fight...
like the congresswoman from Tennessee who is making a stink about dear leader taking over the census and Rep Carter from Texas offering the Rangel Rule legislation...this is what has been missing the past six years..
I am going to call this congressman’s office now and thank him...
Throw the bumbs out. We have people that can replace them.
Effin A!
My Man!
Congressman Price’s office info:
http://tom.house.gov/html/contact.cfm
I just called and asked the girl who answered the phone to pass along my thanks to the congressman and tell him this is the way we need to fight to expose the hypocrisy on the left...
we bash the GOPers when they fail us- take a minute to call Rep Price and praise those who fight for us...
ping
Because elections have consequences. And the Republicans remain primarily gutless, spineless, and timid.
That's just a longer way to say "Congress."
“fight hard, fight dirty”
I don’t see this as dirty fighting at all. Everything he said was true or proper conjecture. That’s just good baseball.
Colonel, USAFR
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