A Novel Idea: Give Congress a Chance to Read Legislation Before Voting On It

The American people are angry that Speaker Pelosi didn’t allow the public and their elected representatives to read the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ bill or the national energy tax before they were rammed through the House. They have every right to be angry. Look at the results. We’ve lost more than 2.5 million jobs since the ‘stimulus’ bill passed, and yet after the fact we found that it included nearly a million dollars for Rep. Murtha’s ‘airport for no one.’ Months after House Democrats passed Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax, we learned of a secret Obama Administration analysis showing such a ‘cap-and-trade’ scheme will raise costs for American families by an average of $1,700 a year. “Congress can, and must, do better. That’s why I’m proud to support this bipartisan effort to bring greater accountability and transparency to how Congress spends the taxpayers’ hard-earned money. I urge my colleagues, on both sides of the aisle to do the same by signing the discharge petition.”