Senate Finance Committed Chaired by Baucus Votes to prevent healthcare bill from being posted online 72 hours before any vote.  Why the secrecy?

Rick Nelson

Late last evening, the Senate Finance committee, chaired by Senator Max Baucus voted down a provision that would require their version of the healthcare bill to be posted online 72 hours prior to any vote.   Republicans, who were unanimously in support of posting the bill online so that the public could be informed, werre joined by Senator Blance Lincoln (D).  The 12 other Democrats voted to maintain the secrecy of the bill.

So Baucus uses the HHS to fiercly attack opponents of the bill and then spearheads the opposition to a proposal to let the American people know what is in the bill.  This veil of secrecy must be lifted.  What are they hiding in the details of the bill?  Some of them have the audacity to say that it is too complex and filled with legal jargon.   So they are saying we are too ignorant to comprehend! 

Call and email the senators on this committee that voted against transparency and for secrecy.  They work for you.  They live on your dime.  Let them know that the sleeping giant is wide awake and ready to kick butt and take names.

MAX BAUCUS, MT 
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WV
KENT CONRAD, ND
JEFF BINGAMAN, NM
JOHN F. KERRY, MA
RON WYDEN, OR
CHARLES E. SCHUMER, NY
DEBBIE STABENOW, MI
MARIA CANTWELL, WA
BILL NELSON, FL
ROBERT MENENDEZ, NJ
THOMAS CARPER, DE

Also let Olympia Snowe that she needs to finally forget about her longing for the camera and attention and for once do the right thing and hold her opposition to the bill.  She typically holds out for a long time and then votes with the liberals in the spirit of bipartianship.  She is the most infamous RINO (Republican in name only) and has no use for conservative values and principles.  Her professional caree has been in the Senate and has no real world experience in anything.  She is the consumate professional politician who will sell out the American people if she can become one of the "key" votes that determine the outcome of controvercial legislation.  It is time for Republicans to cut her loose from important committee assignments.  A janitorial committee would be just fine with me.

OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, ME