So the Big O is going to change “business as usual”. Right. Good luck with that one.
So what do you have to say about Pelosi refusing to let the people read her health distruction bill?
[W]hen asked if Speaker Pelosi will leave the bill online for 72 hours after we see what’s in the rule, Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly replied in an email: “No; [the] pledge was to have manager’s amendment online for 72 hours, and we will do that.”
Apparently Pelosi’s agreement to leave the “final” bill online “at the very end” of the process wasn’t such a straightforward pledge.
Hiding their work from the people is Unconstitutional. I wish I had the money to bring suit.
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November 10, 2009 at 11:45 pm
I doubt there’s a Constitutional right to have bills published online, unless it’s in one of those penumbras the Scalias of the worlds are always carping about. On the other hand, don’t promise something so simple and fail to follow through with. Bad move, Nancy.
November 11, 2009 at 7:51 am
Well, I wasn’t being specific to online posting. Although, that would be more cost efficient. But I believe we have the right to read the laws they are crafting.
I believe that throwing together 1092 pages of miscellaneous verbiage without reading it, or permitting it to be read, and voting on it is Unconstitutional.
You would have to read 15 pages an hour, every hour, to get it done in 72. Now, yes it can be done, but you won’t be conducting any other business.
But remember – (without starting a discussion on the medical procedure) the Constitution is not specific regarding the “right” to abortion for women, either. We are told many things are Constitutional that are not specified in the document.