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February 16, 2009

Obama's promise of transparency thrown under the bus

Topics: Political News and commentaries

As Dan Spencer notes at RedState, "With the so-called "stimulus" bill, President Obama has thrown the change he promised under the bus":

On his Change.gov website, Obama promised to "end the practice of writing legislation behind closed doors" - to "restore the American people's trust in
their government by making government more open and transparent. Obama
will work to reform congressional rules to require all legislative
sessions, including committee mark-ups and conference committees, to be
conducted in public. By making these practices public, the American
people will be able to hold their leaders accountable for wasteful
spending and lawmakers won't be able to slip favors for lobbyists into
bills at the last minute."

Just words.

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Everything about the the stimulus bill has been conducted behind closed doors and in fact, no one that voted for the bill had actually read it at the time they voted for it. Transparency? Just words, indeed.

Posted by Hyscience at February 16, 2009 8:14 AM

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