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One Hundred Hours Down the Drain
Reason Online ^ | 08 Jan 07 | Brian Doherty

Posted on 01/08/2007 11:53:22 AM PST by rellimpank

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To: Gritty

Someone's dreaming.

House chambers are empty this "first day as speaker".


21 posted on 01/08/2007 12:37:44 PM PST by ctdonath2
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To: CFC__VRWC
There should be a complete transparency, not just earmark transparency. Every single paragraph, sentence, word and punctuation mark should be liked back the the Congressmen who put them in, the committee which approved them and who voted for or against it. I should be able to click anywhere on a bill on the web to see exactly how that part of the bill was put in. Never again should Byrd or Stevens be able to sneak things into bills and be allowed to shrug their shoulders about how in the world could that suspicious appropriation just fall into a bill.

There should also be no secret holds on bills or nominations. If a Congressman feels strongly enough to put a stop to something, he should proudly go to the podium and tell the world what he is doing and why.

22 posted on 01/08/2007 12:40:24 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Baker's Iraq Surrender Group - warming up the last helicopter out of Baghdad.)
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To: Victoria Delsoul

"100 Hours" Ping.


23 posted on 01/08/2007 12:51:11 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: xcamel
100 "working hours"... that should take around 150 days, right?

Depends. In normal business billing each employee's hours are billed, even when they're working together. The 100 hours would get knocked off in less than an hour if we werre talking real business hours.

24 posted on 01/08/2007 1:05:04 PM PST by GoLightly
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To: KarlInOhio
Fine suggestions but I doubt either side wants that much openness
25 posted on 01/08/2007 1:52:10 PM PST by packrat35 (guest worker/day worker=SlaveMart)
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To: KarlInOhio

This usually happens in Korea for the Super Bowl. The military knows lots of military personnel will be up at an insane hour to watch the game and will not be productive the next day.

I wouldn't recommend it.


26 posted on 01/08/2007 2:24:17 PM PST by art_rocks
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