Coburn removes secrecy measure from transportation bill.
By on Nov 18th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Coburn removes secrecy measure from transportation bill.
Last week, ThinkProgress noted that a secrecy measure had been inserted into House and Senate Conference report for the Transportation-HUD spending bill that would deny the public timely access to budget information in the bill. The secrecy measure has now been removed from the bill. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) told the Austin American-Statesman yesterday “that he has persuaded a key House appropriator to remove that provision.”
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Secrecy, he was FOR it before he was AGAINST it.
Most likely he is still FOR it but now since the secrecy is not secret any more he feels like a DUOFUS.
November 18th, 2007 at 10:26 amWhile I am pleased by this development, I am still interested in how this got added to the conference report without it being debated in either house before that. Are the Democrats behaving in the same corrupt, undemocratic way the Republicans did before we threw their asses out last year?
Not only should this never have happened in the first place, we need for the Democrats to have the courage to change the rules so it can’t happen again. Speed and timeliness is not an excuse. When the courts ruled that the FCC could not enforce the No Call Registry, Congress voted to fix it within 24 hours. There is no justification for adding to the final conference bill things that were never debated (or that failed to pass) before it got to them.
November 18th, 2007 at 10:41 amwell, papa must’ve had a chat with his buddy bob schieffer…
just heard schieffer blame the “nothing doing” congress
for the lack of progress there…
he DID say that the dems blame the repugs, and visa versa…
but he ended with the “nothing doing” tag…
here i thought bob schieffer was coming around to the truth…
pretty good interview with EDWARDS before that…
November 18th, 2007 at 11:02 am…
The most important question that MUST be asked here is just exactly WHO inserted this “secret” provision and upon whose direction they did it.
Once that is determined, the guilty parties should be censured and removed from their current positions with a bar to any further government service in any capacity whatsoever — whether elected, appointed or as a member of any private organization that does any business whatsoever at the federal level.
This is just plain BS, deceptive and dishonest. Since OUR taxpayer dollars are paying the salaries for these crooks, I strongly object to their being allowed to continue without repercussion.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:09 amCaught with a hand in the cookie jar–trying to make a graceful escape?
November 18th, 2007 at 11:47 amHow far has CBS news fallen?
Murrow->Cronkite->Rather->Schieffer–>Couric?
November 18th, 2007 at 11:50 amSen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) told the Austin American-Statesman yesterday “that he has persuaded a key House appropriator to remove that provision.â€
That says to me that Coburn did not “remove secrecy measure” as stated in the header, but rather he is claiming credit for it, while it was apparently done by someone else.
November 18th, 2007 at 2:40 pm