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Mar 23, 2010 13:27

what happened to transparency through waiting 5 days before signing a bill?

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silas7 March 23 2010, 18:53:46 UTC
Is there a reason to rush it?

I thought the bill was online for the three days prior to the vote, for public perusal.

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mesatchornug March 23 2010, 18:58:16 UTC
The promise was 5 days after the bill is presented to him, except in the case of emergency measures. I don't believe this qualifies as such.

They passed it on Sunday, and never posted the bill [that I can find] on the whitehouse.gov site. They've posted the reconciliation, from before it was passed, but that's it.

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koshnfurter March 23 2010, 19:24:18 UTC
I hear what you're saying, but I would point out that the bill passed the senate before the new year. It's been public in its current form for several months. The reconciliation is what is new.

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mesatchornug March 23 2010, 19:32:58 UTC
the bill passes the senate then, but only just passed the house, then re-passed the senate.

While it's been available, it is not terribly easy to find. In fact, searching whitehouse.gov for HR 3962 only returns the Spanish-language copy of the resolution. Not terribly helpful. A Google search returns it in English, now that I know it's number I can find the 1990-page document that is not linked to on the main site.

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