Posted on 09/23/2009 1:01:43 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Remember when the self-proclaimed most powerful woman in the world, Nancy Pelosi promised the most “honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history." But Pelosi must believe that being honest and open has nothing to do with reading a bill before it is voting.
Back in June, Congressional Republicans introduced H. Res 554. The bill's purpose is to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that legislation and conference reports be available on the Internet for 72 hours before consideration by the House, giving the members and the public time to read the bill before it can be voted on. In the three months since it was introduced, the bill has languished on the speaker's desk as Mrs. Transparency refuses to allow a vote on the bill.
House Republican Leader John Boehner wrote this about the bill on his blog:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
Pelosi = What! You really WANT to know what you’re voting on? I don’t think so.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our ... brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
Is it almost time?
Good speech, but we’ll still do nothing.
Main Entry: trans·par·ent
Pronunciation: \tran(t)s-ˈper-ənt\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin transparent-, transparens, present participle of transparēre to show through, from Latin trans- + parēre to show oneself
Date: 15th century
1 a (1) : having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid (2) : allowing the passage of a specified form of radiation (as X-rays or ultraviolet light) b : fine or sheer enough to be seen through : diaphanous
2 a : free from pretense or deceit : frank b : easily detected or seen through : obvious c : readily understood d : characterized by visibility or accessibility of information especially concerning business practices
synonyms see clear
— trans·par·ent·ly adverb
— trans·par·ent·ness noun
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(Nancy, you ain't makin the trip!)
Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
In 2010 should we reconcile ourselves:
`to each, according to their need ...’; ‘no one but federal employees needs firearms to protect themselves and federal property’; `massive spending (with that debt to be shouldered by our children) is sound economic policy’; `our sovereignty as a nation should be subordinated to the greater continental & world good’;
and so forth and so on, every day for 8 months from this relentless, marxist and his congressional goons;
re-stated, should we concede the freedoms won for us by generations of Americans and reconcile ourselves to this tyranny?
Doesn’t Mr Boehner have the right to require any bill to be read in full on the floor of the house before consideration?
Well, they don’t write them, so why would they bother to read them?
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