EXPOSE THIS AND RAISE HELL EVERYTIME

[juliagoolia]

This will be the routine when Congress returns.. All of our Cspan and NEWS watchers need to help us expose this when they do it, and raise holy hell! Blog the neighborhoods when they meet in the night and dont let anyone debate! Blog Everywhere the dirty deeds and tactics of the moralists in control now.

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Secret GOP Deals a Congressional Trend, Bypassing Debate and Majority Rule

The Boston Globe
Oct 03, 11:03 PM 2004

http://www.aiada.org/article.asp?id=24260

Oct. 3--WASHINGTON -- Dismayed that the technology company Accenture had located its headquarters in Bermuda, thereby avoiding paying hundreds of millions of dollars in US taxes, the House Appropriations Committee voted 35-17 this summer to strip the firm of a $10 billion Homeland Security contract.
It was a rare moment of bipartisan agreement and an important victory for those who decry corporate tax loopholes. But it didn't last long. The Rules Committee, the all-powerful gatekeeper of the Republican leadership, prevented the measure from reachin! g the House floor. In a further show of its power to pick and choose what the full House can vote on, the Rules Committee allowed the House to vote on a ban on future Homeland Security contracts to overseas companies -- but let the $10 billion flow to Accenture, which spent $2 million last year lobbying the government.

The Accenture episode is emblematic of the way business is conducted in the 108th Congress, where a Republican leadership has sidelined legislation unwanted by the Bush administration, even when a majority of the House seemed ready to approve it, according to lawmakers, lobbyists, and an analysis of House activities. With one party controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, and having little fear of retaliation by the opposing party, the House leadership is changing the way laws are made in America, favoring secrecy and speed over open debate and negotiation. Longstanding rules and practices are ignored. Committees more often! meet in secret. Members are less able to make changes to legislation on the House floor. Bills come up for votes so quickly that elected officials frequently don't know what's in them. And there is less time to discuss proposed laws before they come up for a vote.
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[Zhade]

1. Kick

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[AzDar]

3. sickening. n/t

[Rambis]

4. This is what * wanted

He wanted to run the government like a business and he is the CEO and he does what he wants. The groveling hordes do what he wants so they don't fall out of favor with the boss. It is classic corp style management which is a lot of ass kissing and you stroke the clients that give you the most cash.

[juliagoolia]

5. At least in business everyone sits at

a round table and they all discuss it. Regardless of whether the ideas are considered or not.

We the public deserve to hear what the bills are and have them debated in public on cspan!

[Rambis]

7. I agree

Good luck though- This never has been a democracy but it is abundantly clear we are a neocon dictatorship with a puppet ruler.

[DeminGa]

8. uggh

"He wanted to run the government like a business and he is the CEO and he does what he wants."

If he runs the government anything like he ran his own businesses we are in deep trouble, and at the very least headed towards bankruptcy

But we all knew that anyway....

[foreigncorrespondent]

6. And to think...

...someone recently told me the FMA wouldn't pass.

Oh boy! What other "exciting" laws do they have in mind for those on the left side of the political fence?