A unified Republican Senate signed a letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Reid with a simple request, can the American people see the bill you sent to the Congressional Budget Office?
Here is the text of the signed letter:
On Monday, you announced that you had sent health care legislation to the Congressional Budget office (CBO). As you know, this legislation will have a profound impact on the lives of every American, including the next generation who will be forced to pay for it. Our national debt stands at nearly $12 trillion, with a deficit of $1.4 trillion. The health care bill will likely be more than 1,000 pages long and is the single most important legislation we will consider and debate this year in Congress.
With an issue this large and complex, we need full transparency at every stage in the legislative process. President Obama was elected, in part, on his promise to bring greater transparency to the workings of the federal government. The American people and every member of Congress should be allowed to read the bill that was sent to CBO. The bill should be made available for taxpayers to read and learn how the federal government is spending their money. We are writing to request that you immediately make all materials sent to CBO publicly available on the internet.
Moe Lane
Jim Kelly
Erick Erickson
Nice Letter
Joe_Cor Friday, October 30th at 7:46PM EDT (link)But isn’t there a better way to get the message out to the American people than a letter addressed to Reid?
Not when it's a request of Reid (nt)
Neil Stevens Friday, October 30th at 7:50PM EDT (link)Want to run for conservatives? Give.
There Is No Crisis
I’d rather everyone get along, but I’ll settle for everyone united in hating me for being a jerky moderator.
Oh, you mean rely on the MSM
Dan Perrin Friday, October 30th at 7:50PM EDT (link)to report the demand or pressure any Democrat, anytime on anything?
uh, huh
Could someone clue in the Republicans in the Senate
Tbone Friday, October 30th at 7:54PM EDT (link)that we are now living in a totalitarian state and they ain’t running it?
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Adjust the tin foil (nt)
Neil Stevens Friday, October 30th at 8:20PM EDT (link)Want to run for conservatives? Give.
There Is No Crisis
I’d rather everyone get along, but I’ll settle for everyone united in hating me for being a jerky moderator.
lol
Dan Perrin Friday, October 30th at 8:32PM EDT (link)pretty funny Stevens
Now Neil,
Tbone Sunday, November 1st at 7:37PM EST (link)One doesn’t have to wear a tin foil hat to see that the Democrats have abandoned, ignored, abused and discarded a significant number of laws, rules, regulations and traditions in imposing their agenda.
We have unelected and unconfirmed “czars” running huge swaths of the government, many with marxist and socialist agendas
We have a government that prints money at will.
We have a Senate who seems willing to reconfigure 18% of the economy with an amendment to a budget bill.
We have a Congress that seems willing to pass stealth bills.
We have a justice department run by the likes of Holder and nut jobs like Koh.
We have a CoC who sees dead soldiers as little more than another photo op.
We have Bill Ayers, who ought to be in prison in the Lincoln bedroom.
We have a President without a past, at least one that is published.
The Republicans in Congress have been literally locked out of the decison making process.
Now Slick, you answer this question: If Obama could rule by decree, would he be willing to disregard the Constitution and 250 years of American governance traditions?
Yep, we both know that answer.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Resistance is not
Dan Perrin Friday, October 30th at 7:57PM EDT (link)futile
No, but they better get a whole lot meaner.
Tbone Friday, October 30th at 8:07PM EDT (link)Like, at what point do they start taking some of this stuff to the Supreme Court?
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Last in Line to Sign
RoscoeP Friday, October 30th at 8:07PM EDT (link)Did you notice who the last to sign were? And what’s up with Chuck G’s desparation to get his name on the front page?
Oh, you mean the usual suspects?
Dan Perrin Friday, October 30th at 8:12PM EDT (link)Just noticed that, good call, the last three signatories of the letter are:
Snowe
Voinovich
Collins
As far as Grassley's signature goes,
Dan Perrin Saturday, October 31st at 1:15AM EDT (link)they may not have had a second signature page around when he signed it, Senators some times sign letters without the signature lines, especially group letters
Democrat Govt is Dishonest Tryanny
VinceP1974 Friday, October 30th at 8:56PM EDT (link)I have suspected all along that what would happen is this..
The day of the Senate vote, a bill or major portion of it will come out of nowhere , with text unseen.. and no one will know what they’re voting for.
The day of the House vote, a bill or major portion of it will come out of nowhere , with text unseen.. and no one will know what they’re voting for.
Then when those are passed, another bill will emerge in the Conference Committee and it will bear no relation to anything that was passed beforehand. And it will pass.
The bill that is awaiting its ascent from the pits of hell to the Conference Committee, that was written a long time ago, and long desired for by these Communists is the real bill.
Everything up until now is just a sham.
Our Constitution is destroyed.
I wonder something
kyle8 Friday, October 30th at 9:44PM EDT (link)I was under the impression that the Public record act (can’t remember the name) that opened up a lot of government records to the public was very powerful and far reaching. Can’t they legally require Reid to let everyone see it?
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
I may be mistaken, but I do not think the
Dan Perrin Friday, October 30th at 10:21PM EDT (link)freedom of information act applies to Congress.
Anyone know?
I think if I'm right
Richard Mullins Saturday, October 31st at 12:06AM EDT (link)congress exempted themselves from FOIA. That’s every sneaky of them. Anyways, I see that lots of Senators signing have worse signatures than mine. I don’t like to print out anything because of my chicken scratch print. Oh well, I think I got that stuff to a point from my dad, he prints a bit better and signature is cleaner.
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