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How Congress Is Cooking the Books
NY Post ^ | September 30, 2009 | MICHAEL TANNER

Posted on 09/30/2009 3:23:23 AM PDT by Scanian

LAST week, the Senate Finance Committee voted 12-11 not to wait for the Congressional Budget Office to "score" its health-care bill before the committee votes on it. Imagine that: Some senators actually wanted to know how much the bill costs before voting on it.

Let them get away with something like that, and before you know it they'll be demanding honest accounting practices -- sending the whole legislative process to hell in a hand basket.

When it comes to the health-care-reform debate, you see, honest budgeting is nowhere to be seen.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; costs; healthcare; misrepresentations

1 posted on 09/30/2009 3:23:24 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

“Our perks and brothels must flow."

2 posted on 09/30/2009 3:29:53 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: Scanian

3 posted on 09/30/2009 3:31:45 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Diogenesis

ISAIAH 40

22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

23 He brings princes to naught
and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

24 No sooner are they planted,
no sooner are they sown,
no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.


4 posted on 09/30/2009 3:43:18 AM PDT by Pegita ('Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His word ...)
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To: Diogenesis
Add to this that princess pelosi refuses to allow 72 hours to review bills before voting and you can see whose interests are being served. This pompous scum has to to taught a lesson next November that they will not soon forget. In the mean time we need to hammer them for all we are worth.
5 posted on 09/30/2009 4:42:51 AM PDT by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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