House Voting More Often in the Wee Hours

[onehandle]

Those votes -- on a sweeping budget-cutting measure and a defense bill that also would open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling -- did not come until practically the break of dawn. But that was nothing new for a House that has taken its most controversial votes in recent years under the cloak of darkness -- well past the deadlines for the evening news or the morning paper.

The House voted at 6:07 a.m. yesterday to shave $39.7 billion from entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. At 5:04 a.m., lawmakers voted to open the Alaskan wilderness to oil exploration.

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"We don't want to hang our hats and go home" when night falls, Bonjean said. "We want to get our work done."

But Democrats see a pattern here, and they were not about to attribute it to a diligent Republican work ethic. "Republican policy is so out of touch with mainstream Americans that they have to pass their legislation in the dead of night," said Jennifer Crider, spokeswoman for Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/19/AR2005121901658.html?sub=AR

[qanda]

1. But what is done in darkness

Will eventually come to light. And these people try to call themselves Christians-- that should be real Christians first clue. Why do they need to hide if what they are doing is so right?

[DemonFighterLives]

2. Nocturnal Vampires

Trying to suck the life blood out of the U.S.
These Vultures of Life do not have the interest of the majority of Americans in mind.
:argh:

[Orsino]

3. And Democratic policy is so out of touch that we rarely hear...

...anything more than vague complaints.