O-M-G!!!! How the heck do they end up being our elected public officials then??? If I, an average American can read the bills and make sense of them, why can't they??? At least I make an effort to read the damn bills in my spare time and I don't get paid for this like they do. My gosh, I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone and this is the norm... ARGH!
Listen America, this is UNACCEPTABLE! These public officials are in Washington to REPRESENT US there. When they vote on a bill any bill, don't you think they should AT LEAST KNOW what they are voting for that will become LAW and will affect us all. What's worse our very own President signs these bills without reading either based on TRUSTING our Senators and Congresspersons. This is their JOB and they are BLATANTLY TELLING US their JOB is "Arcane Confusing Hard Stuff to Understand". Well then Senator's YOU WILL ALL BE FIRED! for being so damn INCOMPETENT! This goes for Congress too! NO MORE FREE RIDE's. It's over!
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CNS News
Finance Committee Democrat Won’t Read Text of Health Bill, Says Anyone Who Claims They’ll Understand It ‘Is Trying to Pull the Wool Over Our Eyes’
written by By Nicholas Ballasy, Video Reporter
Friday, October 02, 2009
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not “expect” to read the actual legislative language of the committee’s health care bill because it is “confusing” and that anyone who claims they are going to read it and understand it is fooling people.
“I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I’ve ever read in my life,” Carper told CNSNews.com.
Carper described the type of language the actual text of the bill would finally be drafted in as "arcane," "confusing," "hard stuff to understand," and "incomprehensible." He likened it to the "gibberish" used in credit card disclosure forms.
Last week, the Finance Committee considered an amendment offered by Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) that would have required the committee to post the full actual language of the proposed legislation online for at least 72 hours before holding a final committee vote on it. The committee defeated the amendment 13-10.
Sometime in the wee hours of this morning, according to the Associated Press, the Finance Committee finished work on its health-care bill. "It was past 2 a.m. in the East--and Obama's top health care adviser, Nancy-Ann DeParle in attendance -- when Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the committee chairman, announced that work had been completed on all sections of the legislation," said the AP.
In a Thursday afternoon interview outside the hearing room where the Finance Committee was debating the final amendments to the still-unseen bill, Carper explained why he believes it would be useless for both members of the public and members of the Senate to read the bill’s actual text.
Committee members did not have a “clue,” he said, when one senator recently read them an example of some actual legislative language. When you look at the legislative language, he said, “it really doesn’t make much sense.”
“When you get into the legislative language, Senator Conrad actually read some of it, several pages of it, the other day and I don’t think anybody had a clue--including people who have served on this committee for decades--what he was talking about,” said Carper. “So, legislative language is so arcane, so confusing, refers to other parts of the code—‘and after the first syllable insert the word X’--and it’s just, it really doesn’t make much sense.”
Carper questioned whether anybody could read the actual legislative text and credibly claim to understand it.
If this bill became law, it would mandate dramatic changes in the U.S. health care system.
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