and America takes another one in the........
Posted on 09/25/2009 1:31:19 PM PDT by kellynla
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:
It’s just common sense: the American people should be given time to read major bills before they come to a vote in Congress.
In June, a bipartisan resolution was introduced by Reps. John Culberson (R-TX) and Brian Baird (D-WA) that would change House rules to require all major bills to be posted online publicly for at least 72 hours before they are brought to a vote on the House floor. I posted a similar proposal on a White House “transparency” website this summer - a site that allowed Americans to vote on the reforms they feel would make the biggest impact in terms of making government more accountable. My proposal got more votes than any other idea.
Today, Reps. Greg Walden (R-OR), Culberson and Baird filed a “discharge petition” in the House regarding the 72-hour review resolution. If this bipartisan discharge petition receives the signatures of any 218 House members, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer will be required to schedule the resolution for an up-or-down vote on the House floor.
On Wednesday, Culberson, Baird and Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) filed a discharge petition, a process used to force a bill out of committee. If the petition is signed by at least 218 House members, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be required to schedule the resolution for an up-or-down vote on the House floor.
“It’s just common sense: the American people should be given time to read major bills before they come to a vote in Congress,” House Republican leader John Boehner said in a blog posting on Wednesday.
Boehner said he has signed the discharge petition and he is urging his fellow lawmakers from both parties to do the same. According to Boehner’s office, this is the first time a Democrat has signaled that he would sign a discharge petition since the Democrats took charge of the House.
Boehner noted that previous Congresses, including those led by Republicans, have failed to give the American public time to read major bills before they are voted on. But he said the situation has been particularly “acute” over the past nine months:
“A pork-laden ‘stimulus’ spending bill, a debt-laden budget, a job-killing national energy tax and other bills have been rammed through the House by Speaker Nancy Pelosi without even allowing the American people to know what’s in the bills,” Boehner said.
“The collective cost has been astronomical, both in terms of the debt piled on our children and grandchildren and the astonishing amount of special-interest giveaways tucked inside.” (source)
So which Is it Speaker Pelosi? Open and Transparent or Hiding under a rock like a snake?
There, FIXED!
I don’t know.
and America takes another one in the........
My GOD, We’re in trouble.
It's us, the American people, that are not to be allowed to read the bills.
Now that wouldn't be so bad, IF the Congressman would read them before they vote on them. But we know they don't, and in many cases can't, because the bills are too long. Congressmen would spend their entire day just reading bills. Can't have that, they have to write them too, plus there is golf to play, lobbyists to shake down, and so on.
In reality the CongressCritters neither read nor write the bills. Their staffs do that for them, and they get "executive summaries", just the sort of thing that the 'Rats want to post, under the term "Conceptual Language".
GeekMom approves :)
Tatt
Yes, I know how to repeat myself. We are still in trouble,big time!
I say that because until quite recently we had no opportunity to read bills before they were passed. They weren't printed up in the newspapers, nor read aloud on TV. Only with the advent of the internet, did it become possible.
But in those bygone days, bills were generally shorter, and the Congressmen who we hired did read them, and write them too, on occasion at least.
So, to wrap..because the one person who flipped me off isnt coming forward, Im going to punish you ALL with a weeks detention. Or maybe even..the destruction of the Constitution itself.
Yeah, that’ll work.
Pelosi, the disgusting criminal politician, shows her utter contempt for the Constitution and the Democratic process, again and again, and again...She is not an American.
Zip cuffs and a gag order.
Oh, and jail for life. Life not being 20 years, but the rest of it.
LOL!
It’s time to combine these ideas into a new Contract; or an even more marketable phrase ...
In a way, this is a contract violation, the kind that can vitiate any contract. This is how I mean it:
The Constitution is our contract, and the laws Congress passes, when signed by the President become part of that contract (in a way).
One of the requirements of a contract under the Uniform Commercial Code is that all parties to the contract, or their representatives, have read and understood the contract.
I’m sure legally and Constitutionally that argument doesn’t hold water, but it works for me.
Good Grief!!!
LOL! No wait...Cackle!
I did not know that her role was to allow or disallow this sort of thing. I thought her role was to guide. When did she become the boss? If all these Senators do as she says, there is a common expression for them that means they are whipped by a woman, and you know what I mean. Disgusting. All these men (and other women) afraid of Pelosi? She must have a lot of dirt on all of them to demand such an incredible thing.
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