Show Us The Bill

Update: The Pressure Is Working

In a townhall forum last Friday, Russ Carnahan was prepared with an answer when asked if he had read the bill.  He claimed he had read three summaries of the three Democratic House Bills, and would be reading the full bill when it was posted this week (he said Monday, but it's already Wednesday).

The first step is making them sensitive to charges of not reading what they voted on.  That Congressman Carnahan is fully prepped with an answer suggests that these politicians are starting to understand that they are being watched, and will be judged according to their actions.

It's a start.  Sad that it has to be done, but it's a start.

Blunt, Graves Take Let Freedom Ring Pledge To Read HealthCare Bill

Missouri Representatives Roy Blunt and Sam Graves have signed on to the Let Freedom Ring pledge to personally read health care legislation before voting on it, and also to not vote for legislation that hasn't been posted up on line at least 72 hours prior to the vote for the public to read.

Congratulations to the only two Missouri Congressman to stand up and actually do their jobs.

The next question is where are the other seven Congressman on this?

On the Republican side, Emerson, Luetkemeyer, and Akin need to step up to the plate.
On the Democratic site, Clay, Cleaver, Carnahan, and Skelton need to be asked why they would vote for legislation they haven't read in full.

Get to the phones.

Rally This Saturday, Show Us The Bill And Join Patients First

More information on the rally this Saturday.   

What: Show Us THE Bill - Patients First Tour - CLAYTON
Where: 7900 Carondelet Ave, Clayton, MO
When: Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 10AM

This is the event sign-up for Join Patients First, which has been supported by American For Prosperity. 

And if you need some fuel, check out the remarks Steny Hoyer, the Democratic Majority Leader has on reading legislation.

“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.

This is the strategy of bureaucrats so caught up in their power they don't see anything wrong with mocking the voters.  Hoyer acknowledges that no one would vote for the bill if they had to read it first.  Now, presumably he's saying that the members won't read it, but we're also aware that if all legislation was read, pork like the $3 million bailout for Captain Morgan we found in the TARP funds wouldn't get enacted.

This is the reality of Washington today.  They don't care what you think, and think it's funny that anyone would ask them to do their job.

It's time to stand up.  We'll see you Saturday.

Obama Supports Single Payer Healthcare System, But Doesn't Want You To Know

A video by Patients United Now, arguing that the public option is really single payer masked in wolf's clothing.

Harry Reid Refuses To Make Healthcare Bill Open To Public

CNS News is reporting today that Harry Reid  is refusing to commit to give the public one week to read the healthcare bill before the Senate holds a vote on it.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- Nev.) will not commit to giving senators and the public a full week to read and review the final version of a health-care reform bill before he holds a final vote on it.

Reid confessed at his Thursday news briefing that he did not have “a lot of time” to read the 1,071-page stimulus bill before voting on it in February.

The Senate rushed the stimulus bill through on the basis of urgent economic help, voting on the bill with not a single member of the Senate able to read the final text.  President Obama left for a Chicago date that weekend, and waited a full five days to sign the bill.  In other words, the Senate rushed a bill through that no one read, even though there was an additional five days to consider it.

The Cap and Trade bill was rushed through the House with a 300 page amendment dropped into the bill at 3:00 in the morning - where was that urgency?  Now we find out that everything from home sales to washer and dryers to light bulbs is being regulated and taxed.  What is going to be in the healthcare bill?

Will you stand silent as 20% of the economy is fundamentally altered by an elitist group of Senators who can't be bothered to read what they are voting on?

The time for action is now.  This is not democracy.  Do not let this stand.

July 11th Read The Healthcare Bill Rally In Clayton

 

Show Us The Bill!   Hands Off our Healthcare!

Congress is rushing to radically alter the finest health care system in the world. 

If health care ‘reform’ is so great, why can’t we see the text of the bill?

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the cost to be in the trillions of dollars.

Will government seize control of another 18% of the United States economy?

Will politicians and bureaucrats make our health care decisions?

We Americans demand to see the bill!

Bring your friends and family and join us for a public meeting
Saturday, July 11, at 10 AM
Memorial Park in downtown Clayton
S. Central & Carondelet (map link)

 

Wear Red, White, and Blue!   To RSVP, email us at showusthebill@gmail.com