via: michellemalkin
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
That was the reaction of Democrat House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to the idea that members of Congress would actually read the health care takeover bill before voting on it:
“If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference.
Hoyer was responding to a question from CNSNews.com on whether he supported a pledge that asks members of the Congress to read the entire bill before voting on it and also make the full text of the bill available to the public for 72 hours before a vote.
In fact, Hoyer found the idea of the pledge humorous, laughing as he responded to the question. “I’m laughing because a) I don’t know how long this bill is going to be, but it’s going to be a very long bill,” he said.
“Members clearly–and staff and review boards, they read them in their entirety. They go over it with members, and members read substantial portions of the bill themselves, but the issue is–I don’t know who signed this (pledge), but frankly the opposition has been very vociferous, not of the verbiage and bill, but on the concept that it incorporates,” Hoyer said.
Let Freedom Ring, a Delaware-based conservative organization, is circulating a pledge that asks members of Congress to promise to read the entirety of the final text of a health-care reform bill before they vote on it. They also are asking that the full bill be made available for review by the public for 72 hours before Congress votes on it.
Obama lied, transparency died.
The joke’s on you. And it keeps getting more and more expen$$$$ive every day.
all congressmen and senators vow to lead us according to the constitution of the united states…any congressmen or senator who does not read the bills in study them before voting in them should immediately be removed from their position…if they do not read them they cannot know whether there is anything against our constitution or not! it does not take a harvard education to realize that the people in the dc bubble do not have a clue as to what we, the American people, the only majority that is important want! that is why they have been sitting there in dc communicating with each other because they know they are going to have to listen to at least 200 million
Americans that do not one more piece of legislation written, proposed or passed until we decide what we want done with stimulus money and the remaining $500 billion sitting in the fed tres from the tarp fund AND MOST IMPORTANT…WE WANT THE FUNDS THAT OBAMA AND CREW HAVE ROBBED FROM OUR MEDICARE RETURNED
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Comment by mindy rodriguez — July 30, 2009 @ 10:09 am