Congressman Speech in Front of Pelosi's Office: 'Shady Deals Going on Behind Closed Doors'

businessandmedia.org ^ | February 11, 2009 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

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."

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[Rufus2007]

Haha - I bet Pelosi didn't like it when he did this.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

HA! Suck it, Nanc.

[SouthernmostFreeper]

Hello??!!....

BOTOX Party . Get with it Senator!

[blondee123]

"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.”

[Redbob]

Funny... this doesn't LOOK like Tom Price:

"“My name’s Tom Price and I ...[am] the privileged chair of the Republican Study Committee,”

[SouthernmostFreeper]

What will really be golden is if she does respond at all about it.

[Centurion2000]

Maybe we should send the Republican Congressman a good doorbuster as a present.

[blueyon]

The leftist news media will never pick it up!

[Venturer]

Why isnt every Congressman in the House standing outside that door demanding entrance??

Its time to stop being polite, while the Democrats are selling the country.

[Zman]

Let me see if I get this right; Republicans are shut out of a Conference Committee where discussions about government spending are taking place but these dumb-ass dems want to re-institute the “Fairness Doctrine”?

[mort56]

Price is my rep and I am damned proud of him!

[Politicalmom]

Go, Tom!!

[freekitty]

Continue doing it. We still have representation in the Congress. They are really carrying this “I won” thing to far.

[Starfleet Command]

Tom Price eh?

OK, he can live too.

[Peter Horry]

“Continue doing it. We still have representation in the Congress. They are really carrying this “I won” thing to far”

ONE REPRESENTATIVE! how about a freakin mob, how about some of that insolence exhibited when the democrats tried to count votes behind closed doors in Florida, it is time to make the democrats to become UNSETTLED, they are already unhinged.

[Purrcival]

Price WOULD have been my rep if it hadn’t been for redistricting after the 2000 census. That shoved me into the 11th district instead of the 6th district. Phily Gingrey’s my rep.

[Purrcival]

What if Republicans refused to show up for the vote and they didn’t have a quorum?

[freekitty]

Yep, where is the fight? I don’t care if it’s one or a hundred; we still have representation.

[TAdams8591]

Good for Representative Tom Price! : )

Let's call this Bill what it is, and ANTI-stimulus bill.

[TAdams8591]

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