Sunshine Resolution for Health Care Transparency

U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan (FL-13), the author of the Sunshine Resolution, today called on House and Senate Leaders to accept C-SPANs offer to publicly broadcast final health care negotiations. Buchanan said Congress should not engage in secret, backroom deals when it comes to writing the most sweeping health reform bill in decades.

Buchanans resolution, H. Res. 847 has 151 cosponsors and requires that all final negotiations on the health care reform bill be conducted under the watchful eye of the American people. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not allowed a vote yet on the Buchanan plan.

Recent press reports have indicated Democrat leaders intend to draft the final bill behind closed doors.

Health care reform is one of the largest public policy reforms taken up by Congress in generations, said Buchanan. If enacted, the final bill will impact the lives of all Americans. With so much at stake, any conference committee or meetings held to determine the content of sweeping national health care legislation should be held under the watchful eye of the American people, not behind closed doors.

The Washington Times today referred to Buchanans resolution in an editorial entitled Hiding Health Care Negotiations Behind Closed Doors http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/05/hiding-health-bills-behind-cl...

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[CPAsheldon]

@62636263c Your comment is quite funny. They just can't approach true transparency. All they can do is promise it and then not allow such a thing!

[62636263c]

If we could drag them out into the sunshine, they would burst into flames, and turn into pure carbon. Then they would have to tax themselves.