Politics: Schock wants open debate on final stimulus plan
From a press release:
Schock Calls for Public House – Senate Stimulus Negotiations
Calls for Stimulus conference negotiations to be open to public
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL) issued the following statement calling for an open and public forum for House – Senate negotiations on the stimulus bill. House rules dictate that there must be an open hearing for conference committee negotiations.
“Given the billions of taxpayer dollars at stake in the stimulus, negotiations between the House and Senate must be completely open and transparent. American taxpayers deserve to know how and where the government plans to spend their money. I believe it is an open invitation to trouble to keep these negotiations closed.”
“Allowing this historically enormous spending package to be negotiated between a small handful of people behind closed doors would eliminate accountability to the American taxpayers and wholly undermine all efforts at bipartisanship.”
“I support fast action but not at the expense of getting this wrong. We need to work in an expeditious and bipartisan manner to proceed under full sunlight so taxpayers can have full faith in this process and the resulting economic stimulus bill.”
February 10th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
“Allowing this historically enormous spending package to be negotiated between a small handful of people behind closed doors would eliminate accountability to the American taxpayers and wholly undermine all efforts at bipartisanship.”
No it wont.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Oh sure. NOW he wants a debate!
February 10th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
BWAHAHAHA!
February 10th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
So it was bi-partisan when Schrock rejected the House version of the stimulus out of hand. Phony. Hey Schrock, the Yellow God’s flack Jim Dugan said Cat is in favor of the stimulus. If you want Cat to keep stimulating your campaign coffers you may wish to keep your demo-gouging trap shut.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Hey, Aaron, the entire version of the House Bill is available online. Every…last…word.
AFTER the stimulus is passed, the adminstration has set up a website that will show how every dollar is spent, a site that everyone in the world will be able to log into and check whenever they want.
It CANNOT be any more transparent than that.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:22 am
[...] Shock: here is his press release on the Stimulus Package debate. “Given the billions of taxpayer dollars at stake in the stimulus, negotiations between the House [...]
February 11th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
The final compromise between the House and Senate is NOT yet written as of Wednesday night. Yet House leaders intend to call for a vote on this close to trillion dollar bill less than a day later. Even if you support the stimulus, it is outrageous to have it put together in secret and then to force a vote on it in less than 24 hours when the compromise is not yet written.
It took a couple weeks to go through the House bill and decipher the language to see all that was hidden in there. If it is so great, why can’t this stimulus stand sunshine and a modicum of consideration of exactly what is in the final bill?