I agree. Cheney wiping out his living quarters seems rather odd also (and if Cheney can do it, why not Bradjelina and Michael Jackson who have demonstrated stalkers) ?

In all seriousness though, I can’t imagine what in the DOT needs secrecy. Admittedly, people from one state will compare the numbers to another state to make sure they get their fair share. But that is democracy and govt transparency. (or is this the answer I seek ?)

But the Department of Transportation ? If I want to see where the roads are, I just have to pull up Google Earth. How is the Transportaiton department covert ?

Whoever changed the legislation as voted on in Congress needs to be fired and brought up on charges of un-American activities. There is much too much complacency written above.

Rarely do they have the precious “time” to actually read them (see Patriot Act). That’s what interns are for.

Nope, just curious about the usage of ‘report’ instead of just saying it was in the latest version of the bill, as well as them saying that it wasn’t in the latest version that both houses voted on.

I opened up the pdf and poked thru it a bit, but it was 500+ and appears to be a pdf of scanned pages, so I couldn’t search it for any key words.

Since the report was speaking about the bill, and the words directly before saying the provision had been slipped in refer to the spending bill, it is logical to assume that it was slipped into the bill. It would not be news if they slipped it into a report.

Are you trying to find an excuse for inexcusable behavior again?

Just because the Democrats have a majority in both houses does not mean that they have total control over bills that are passed. These bills go to committees and the committees have both Democrats and Republicans on them.

All I can say is thank goodness for someone catching it.

My bet is that it was a Republican who slipped it in. Last I heard, the Democrats were for open government and the Republicans were for closed/secret government.

I guess you missed this part of the post:

The secrecy language “was not included in either the House or Senate versions of the bill.”

It helps to actually read the article before you post.

Thank you TP for that. I don’t mind debate but (s)hits is not debating but was derailing.

Buck Fush

Comment by jb — November 14, 2007 @ 2:47 pm

Nope. Just our democracy.

Did a democrat change the wording? If they didn’t, how did a republican get their hands on it to change it?

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It’s not what we learned in civics class, is it? Anyway, who is going to chellenge this? Congress? No, they won’t. If they gripe about this abuse of power, the right side will call them names. Dems will do anything to avoid being called names.