President Obama promised transparency with his administration. Yet to date his administration has been one of the LEAST transparent administrations in history. Critical, high impact, and enormously important legislation has been rammed through Congress without allowing time for anyone to read it, including many of those in Congress, let alone the American people. Currently senators are negotiating on Senator Max Baucus' healthcare proposal and when finalized they have no intention of letting the American people have a chance to read it!
On a partisan vote, Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee squashed an amendment by Senator Jim Bunning that would have required the Baucus' bill to be posted on the Internet for all Americans to read 72 hours prior to the Committee voting on it. Also denied was a request to allow people to see how much the bill would cost as assessed by the independent, non partisan, Congressional Budget Office so the real impact could be known before a vote.
The plan appears to be an attempt to pass the Baucus proposal under a cloak of secrecy without telling concerned Americans what it will cost and how it will affect our healthcare.
This is not only outrageous, but it is contrary to our whole concept of democracy through a representative form of government...yet of the people, by the people, and for the people. There is NO transparency and people are not a factor in this government.
Where is the press and media on this? You are doing a great, great disservice to America by your failure to objectively report the truth.
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