Public Won’t Get Time to Review Health-Care Bill Before House Votes on It
ByMarie Magleby and Monica Gabriel of CNSNews report that “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) will not give the public a week to review the final text of a health-care reform bill before it is voted on later this year.”
“When the stimulus bill came out earlier this year, members and citizens had less than two days to review the final version that came out of the conference committee before it was voted on,” CNSNews.com asked Pelosi on Thursday. “Will you commit to giving Americans at least a week to review the full conference version of the health care bill before it is voted on? And also will you commit to submitting the final version to the CBO [Congressional Budget Office] so that they can report the cost to the public?”
Pelosi would not commit to giving the public a week to review the bill:
“Well, we will abide by the regular order. You heard the question,” she said. “It was about having the health care bill out there a week in advance. We will have the regular order in terms of the appropriate amount of time, 48 hours in advance for amendments before you file the bill, another day before you can take up the bill.
“But this bill is something that has been unfolding before the American people for a long time now. The areas of controversy are well known,” said Pelosi.
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Pelosi Won’t Give Public a Week to Review Text of Health-Care Bill Before House Votes on It
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