Today in Washington D. C. - Oct 2, 2009 - Senate Dems Have Pattern Of Trying To Keep Public InThe Dark
The Senate is in recess until 2 p.m. on Monday when it will take up the fiscal year 2010 Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill, H.R. 2847. On Tuesday, the Senate will resume consideration of the $636 billion fiscal 2010 Defense appropriations bill, H.R. 3326.
Yesterday, the Senate voted 40-59 against an amendment from Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that called on Generals Petraeus and McChrystal to come to Congress and testify about their recommendations on Afghanistan. The Senate instead passed an amendment from Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the Armed Services Committee chairman, calling for testimony only after President Obama has made a decision which may be a long time in coming. If you have been keeping count, most of McCain's proposed amendments on any bills have been defeated. Seems that McCain would wake-up and pass his proposed ideas to others to offer. His old Democrat "friends" do not seem too friendly. And, McCain's perdiction that voters have nothing to fear if Sen Barack Obama becomes president, has also proven to be questionable.
Last night, the Senate Finance Committee (Democrats) completed work on amendments to chairman Max Baucus’ (D-MT) health care bill. A vote on the bill is not expected until next week after a preliminary CBO score is released.
In the past week a troubling pattern has emerged of Senate Democrats doing their best to prevent the public from learning about serious concerns with the Obama administration’s policies in several areas.
The Washington Post reports today, “A simmering feud over U.S. policy toward Latin America burst into the open Thursday when Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) tried to prevent a fact-finding trip to Honduras by a Republican senator who is blocking two important diplomatic appointments. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) denounced Kerry's move on the Senate floor and sought the intervention of the minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The Republican leader appealed to the Defense Department to provide an aircraft for DeMint's trip and the Pentagon agreed to do so, according to the South Carolina senator's office.”
The attempt by Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, follows two other moves by powerful Democrat committee chairman to keep the public in the dark about the strategy for Afghanistan and the effects of Democrats’ health reform proposals.
Yesterday, Senate Democrats followed the lead of Senate Armed Services Committee chair Carl Levin (D-MI) and voted down an amendment from Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), calling on Generals Petraeus and McChrystal to come to Congress and testify about their recommendations on Afghanistan. Levin took exception to the amendment arguing that it was improper to hear from the generals before President Obama has made a decision. Of course, in 2007, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had bragged, “We forced General Petraeus to testify [on Iraq].”
As previously reported, last week, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) intervened with the Department of Health and Human Services, to prevent the insurer Humana from telling its customers that Democrats’ health care proposals would likely result in cuts to Medicare benefits.
From a gag order against insurance companies designed to hide uncomfortable Medicare cuts, to refusing to let our generals inform the public about the situation in Afghanistan, and now an attempt to prevent Republicans from visiting Honduras to get to the bottom of the Obama administration’s odd policy there, Senate Democrats seem determined to keep Americans in the dark!
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Yesterday, the Senate voted 40-59 against an amendment from Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that called on Generals Petraeus and McChrystal to come to Congress and testify about their recommendations on Afghanistan. The Senate instead passed an amendment from Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the Armed Services Committee chairman, calling for testimony only after President Obama has made a decision which may be a long time in coming. If you have been keeping count, most of McCain's proposed amendments on any bills have been defeated. Seems that McCain would wake-up and pass his proposed ideas to others to offer. His old Democrat "friends" do not seem too friendly. And, McCain's perdiction that voters have nothing to fear if Sen Barack Obama becomes president, has also proven to be questionable.
Last night, the Senate Finance Committee (Democrats) completed work on amendments to chairman Max Baucus’ (D-MT) health care bill. A vote on the bill is not expected until next week after a preliminary CBO score is released.
In the past week a troubling pattern has emerged of Senate Democrats doing their best to prevent the public from learning about serious concerns with the Obama administration’s policies in several areas.
The Washington Post reports today, “A simmering feud over U.S. policy toward Latin America burst into the open Thursday when Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) tried to prevent a fact-finding trip to Honduras by a Republican senator who is blocking two important diplomatic appointments. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) denounced Kerry's move on the Senate floor and sought the intervention of the minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The Republican leader appealed to the Defense Department to provide an aircraft for DeMint's trip and the Pentagon agreed to do so, according to the South Carolina senator's office.”
The attempt by Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, follows two other moves by powerful Democrat committee chairman to keep the public in the dark about the strategy for Afghanistan and the effects of Democrats’ health reform proposals.
Yesterday, Senate Democrats followed the lead of Senate Armed Services Committee chair Carl Levin (D-MI) and voted down an amendment from Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), calling on Generals Petraeus and McChrystal to come to Congress and testify about their recommendations on Afghanistan. Levin took exception to the amendment arguing that it was improper to hear from the generals before President Obama has made a decision. Of course, in 2007, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had bragged, “We forced General Petraeus to testify [on Iraq].”
As previously reported, last week, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) intervened with the Department of Health and Human Services, to prevent the insurer Humana from telling its customers that Democrats’ health care proposals would likely result in cuts to Medicare benefits.
From a gag order against insurance companies designed to hide uncomfortable Medicare cuts, to refusing to let our generals inform the public about the situation in Afghanistan, and now an attempt to prevent Republicans from visiting Honduras to get to the bottom of the Obama administration’s odd policy there, Senate Democrats seem determined to keep Americans in the dark!
Tags: Afghanistan, gag order, health care, US Congress, US House, US Senate, Washington D.C. To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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