The foundation has begun an effort to get Congress to post bills online, for all to see, 72 hours before lawmakers vote on them.
"It would give the public a chance to really digest and understand what is in the bill," Rosenberg said, "and communicate whether that is a good or
a bad thing while there is still time to fix it."
Gee, I wonder who might oppose such a reasonable request for the American people to actually have a chance to read these bills.
Remember the last bailout? Remember Obama's 72 hour promise? Nobody in the world could have read through 1100 pages of the final bill in the, what
was it, 6-7 hours from the time it was made available to the time it was voted on?
Nearly every Republican has signed on, but the Democratic leadership is unwilling to cede control over when bills are brought to the floor for votes
and are discouraging their rank and file from signing the petition. Senate Democrats voted down a similar measure last week for the health care
bill.
When they said transparency, what they really meant was that we don't get to see it at all.
Why am I not surprised.
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