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  • Senate Dems vote to hide full text of ObamaCare online before vote ("conceptual language" only)

    09/23/2009 8:15:42 PM PDT · by BP2 · 58 replies · 4,529+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Sept 23, 2009 | Associated Press
    WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Democrats have just rejected a GOP amendment that would have required a health overhaul bill to be available online for 72 hours before the committee votes. Republicans argued that transparency is an Obama administration goal. They also noted that their constituents are demanding that they read bills before voting. Democrats said it was a delay tactic that could have postponed a vote for weeks. The Democrats say that unlike other committees, the Finance Committee works off conceptual language that describes policies — instead of legislative language that ultimately becomes law, and which the GOP...