Partisan, secret, fast tracked, violating their own rules

[tangent4ronpaul]

Yes, it's the HEALTH CARE (sic) bill!

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...th-care-bill/1

The White House didn't say much about last night's health care talks between President Obama and congressional Democrats, but officials made it clear they're cool with fast-tracking the final phase of legislation, with no public hearings and no Republican involvement.

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And [B}the president will be deeply involved.[/B] The White House just announced he will meet again this afternoon with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other top House Democrats.

Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada -- who led a delegation to the White House early last evening -- have not appointed a House-Senate conference committee to work out differences in their divergent health care bills.

Instead, Democrats in both chambers are negotiating among themselves in hopes of forging a common bill than can be approved as amendments to the existing legislation.

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Other critics have pointed to Obama's campaign pledge about "bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those (health care) negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are."

Indeed, C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb sent the White House a letter this week reminding officials of that promise.

Don't hold your breath on televised health care negotiations, however.

-t

[tangent4ronpaul]

C-SPAN's letter requesting coverage of the events:

http://www.c-span.org/pdf/C-SPAN%20H...e%20Letter.pdf

-t

[Original_Intent]

It's hard to get daylight with all these middle of the night shenanigans.

[tangent4ronpaul]

If they let c-span in, they would broadcast it live then re-brodcast is several times when ppl were awake.

Also - the president has no business deciding what is in a bill!

-t