Did the health reform debate live up to the president's standard? Hardly. The American people were promised a fair, bipartisan, transparent process. But instead the Democrats wrote trillion-dollar, 2,000-plus page bills in secret with no republican input and no public oversight.
The Senate Finance Committee rejected an amendment by Republican senator Jim Bunning that would have required a 72-hour period for public review. All but one of the committee's Democrats voted to keep the process at warp speed--and the public in the dark.
The secrecy continued after one committee passed its bill. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted for its health reform bill on a party-line vote over the summer, but it took two months for the final text to be made public.
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The above quotations are from To Save America Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine, by Newt Gingrich. Click here for main summary page. Click here for a profile of Jim Bunning. Click here for Jim Bunning on all issues.
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