Open Letter: Let Us Read the Stimulus Bill
I posted here back in November suggesting that we should get to read the stimulus bill.
With things moving quickly on a very different bill now, I’m delighted to report that readthestimulus.org has published an open letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama asking them to make public the language of a compromise currently pending in the Senate.
It should be put online for five days before a vote, they say. WashingtonWatch.com is a signatory to the letter.
Majority Leader Reid, we ask that you publish the full legislative text of the compromise immediately, and furthermore, to delay any vote on the bill for at least five days following publication. The American public deserves time to read and understand the substance of this critical legislation, and to express their views to their Senators.
Read the whole thing. Email this around. Now.
Update: The text of the Senate compromise – which apparently will be voted on as an amendment Monday (Feb. 9) at about 5:30 p.m. – is now available. All 778 pages of it.
Perry Allis
If you think over the long haul your going to pull the wool over the peoples eyes, your the ones fooled. were going to vote you out for manipulating the people
Dru
I find it terribly ironic that there’s no way to trace who’s behind the “read the stim” Web site. It’s registered to an anonymous domain. And nowhere in the “About” does it say who “we” are. The partners are listed there, but not the originator or webmaster. So much for transparency.
Rob Neppell
All of our sponsor organizations are on the left sidebar, and the bottom of every page states “Created by Kithbridge” with a link to my company’s site (which has a nice bio page for me, if you are truly curious). I think all that is fairly clear…
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Brandon
I got the bill off of cspan.org the whole thing