Democratic Leader Laughs at Idea That House Members Would Actually Read Health-Care Bill...

CNSNEWS ^ | June 8, 2009 | Monica Gabriel and Marie Magleby

[yoe]

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire 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.

[yoe]

I believe this is exactly what Sarah Palin is talking about. Steny Hoyer is a prime example of the Washington Cess Pool that thrives in other people's money, makes law on ill conceived ideas and then laughs at what they define as the "stupidity" of the voting public.

THROW THE BUMS OUT IN 2012!

[IbJensen]

Long past time to shut down the central goobermint!

[Wolfie]

They didn’t read the Patriot Act either. Let’s face it, we’re screwed.

[Pikachu_Dad]

CAN WE OBTAIN AN INJUNCTION IN FEDERAL COURT AGAINST CONGRESS REQUIRING THAT THEY GIVE US (THE PUBLIC) AMPLE NOTICE TO READ THE BILL?

[TSgt]

Treason

Main Entry: trea·son
Pronunciation: \ˈtrē-zən\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English tresoun, from Anglo-French traisun, from Latin tradition-, traditio act of handing over, from tradere to hand over, betray — more at traitor Date: 13th century

1.) a crime that undermines the offender's government
2.) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior
3.) treachery: an act of deliberate betrayal

[TexasCajun]

Whoever is running the RNC should find this video and make and an ad asap!

[rlmorel]

Stunning.

[MrB]

Contact your state reps.
Get sovereignty legislation passed.
Get opt out legislation passed.
Get nullification laws passed.

[spectre]

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it.

We're in big trouble, people.

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[newgeezer]

Whoever is running the RNC should find this video and make and an ad asap!

That takes money. Does anyone donate to the RNC anymore?

[Irish Eyes]

Whoever is running the RNC should find this video and make and an ad asap!

Needs to be repeated..anyone listing???

Whoever is running the RNC should find this video and make and an ad asap!

[Wolfie]

I don’t remember a whole lot of complaining about it back then. So it goes.

[TexasCajun]

That takes money. Does anyone donate to the RNC anymore?

Not me. Sarah PAC

[clintonh8r]

There was a (better) time when people like this were dealt with in a quick, decisive and conclusive way.

Just sayin'.....

[Danae]

Chuck em all out. NOW.

[abner]

Whoever is running the RNC should find this video and make and an ad asap!

Heck, the media should be doing their 'job' and getting the word out to everyone!

[WOBBLY BOB]

Pelosi, other Dem leaders pressure members to oppose ethics measure

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/pelosi-other-dem-leaders-pressure-members-to-oppose-ethics-measure-2009-04-20.html

Democrats stop GOP effort to start ethics inquiry (The 8th stoppage by the Dims since March)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090513/ap_on_go_co/us_house_ethics_1

[a fool in paradise]

And these are the people who CLAIM that they were MISLED by Boosh into voting to go to war against Iraq.

THROW THE BUMBS OUT. ALL OF THEM.

[TribalPrincess2U]

These are the leaders of this country?

What a sickening laugh.

They are no more capable then a monkey of defending this country
like they should.