Czar Obama wants massive health-care bill passed before anyone has time to read it – what is he hiding?!!!
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Harry Reid Won’t Commit
to Giving Public a Week
to Read Health-Care Bill
Before Senate Votes
On It
By Monica Gabriel
and Marie Magleby
June 26th, 2009
CNSNEWS.COM
Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid (D- Nev.) will
not commit to giving senators
and the public a full week to
read and review the final version
of a health-care reform bill
before he holds a final
vote on it.
Reid confessed at his Thursday
news briefing that he did not
have “a lot of time” to read the
1,071-page stimulus bill before
voting on it in February.
He was unapologetic,
however, about the way Congress
rushed that bill through before it
could be reviewed by senators
and the public,
and declined to commit to giving
senators and the public at least
a week to read the final version
of health-care reform bill before
calling a vote on it.
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“Looking back,
I don’t know how much
time people had,”
Reid said about the stimulus bill
in response to a question from
CNSNews.com.
“I know that I didn’t
have a lot of time.”
Reid was asked
the following question:
“When the stimulus came up
earlier this year members and
citizens had less than two days
to review the final bill before
it was voted on.
Will you commit to give
Americans at least a week
to review the full conference
version of the health-care bill
before it’s voted on?”
The majority leader
not directly answer the
question.
“That was a very
hectic conference,
we felt it was imperative that
we move this bill forward to
help the economy,
and in hindsight we
did that right thing,”
he recalled.
Reid did not commit
commit to more time.
Instead, he promised the
Senate would “follow the rules.”
“We are going to follow the
rules and do the best we can
so that the new rules we have
for transparency will be effective,”
the majority leader said at a
news briefing on Thursday.
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“We have been
putting things online.
We’re doing so much more
than we did just a year or
two ago,
so I think there’s no secrets,
we try to be as upfront
as we can,
give everyone as much
opportunity as we can
to move forward,”
he added.
The final text of the stimulus
bill was posted on the Web
site of the House Appropriations
Committee late on the night
of Thursday, February 12.
Both the House and Senate
voted on the 1,071-page bill
the next day–
not providing enough time
for members to actually
read the bill.
During his campaign,
President Barack Obama
promised that Americans
would have five days to review
all bills before he signed
them into law.
“Too often bills are rushed
through Congress and to the
president before the public
has the opportunity to
review them,”
Obama said,
as reported by MSNBC
and placed on the Obama
campaign Web site.
“As president,
Obama will not sign any
non-emergency bill without
giving the American public
an opportunity to review
and comment on the White
House Web site for five days.”
When the 1071-page
stimulus bill came up
on Friday, February 13–
less than 24 hours after
its final text had finally
been published–
CNSNews.com reported
that several senators
said they would not read
the bill before voting on it,
blaming the limited time
between the publication
of the final bill and the
vote on it.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg
(D.-N.J.) candidly admitted
that no one in Congress would
have time to read the bill
before voting on it,
and no member
contradicted him.
“No,
I don’t think anyone will
have the chance to
[read the entire bill],”
Lautenberg said at the time.
WHEN WILL CONGRESS REFUSE TO VOTE UNLESS THEY ARE GIVEN GENEROUS TIME TO READ WHAT IS IN THE BILL? TAKE THE LEADERS TIME AGAIN IN THE HOUSE AND TIE UP THE FLOOR FOR DAYS.
JOHN P. LAVELLE - June 27, 2009 at 9:11 pm |
Congressional Democrats and Republicans should not vote on the Bill until everyone, including the American people, have a chance to read and understand it. There is no reason for this health care bill to be rushed through. Just like there was no reason for the stimulus bill to be rushed through. Hopefully Congress learned from the tragically pathetic failed Stimulus Bill passage and will refuse to be rushed again, into signing this massive Health-Care Bill. The American people need to be heard and listened to this time.
Ms. Spoerle - July 4, 2009 at 9:40 pm |
This bill is 1018 pages long,
and hardly any of the bill will be read by any one senator.
This bill is unconstitutional, illegal, and immoral.
I am currently reading the bill section by section from back to front, and everything that I have found is that the government is attempting to find a way to regulate American’s lives.
Section 2541 specifies that states are only eligible for federal funding if they follow every single rule and amendment that is in the bill.
Hotonis - July 16, 2009 at 5:04 pm |