Dems Vote to Keep Us From Reading the Bill

I try to stay away from partisan politics in this blog, but this is just too rich to ignore. President Obama and the leaders of the Democrats lectured us endlessly about transparency during the transition and at the beginning of this session. To me, transparency means letting the citizens of the US see what is happening in the halls of government. The Democrats in the Senate Finance committee defeated a measure to require that the committee post the language of any bill and get CBO scoring 72 hours before a vote is taken. The Dems claim that it would add weeks to the deliberations. I guess they don't know that 72 hours is three days. And even if it does add weeks, our right to know, trumps their need for speed.

Here is the article in the American Spectator.