House GOP Wants FY09 Omnibus Online
House Minority Leader John Boehner and other Republican members on Thursday wrote to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer urging them to put the fiscal year 2009 omnibus spending package online immediately. Posting the massive bill on the Internet would allow the American people to study the contents of the measure between now and the week after President's Day, when the legislation is scheduled to be brought to a vote and would be consistent with President Barack Obama's call for greater transparency in government, they said.
"In the face of the highest deficit in our nation's history, the Majority has asked the American taxpayers to fund nearly $1.5 trillion in new government spending in just four short weeks. And yet now the Majority plans to spend hundreds of billions more without yet sharing the content of the bill with Republican Members or the public," the GOP members wrote. "In the midst of a severe recession, taxpayers have a right to see each provision of this legislation and evaluate the merit of each dollar of government spending their children and grandchildren are being required to fund."
A spokesman for Boehner told Tech Daily Dose that GOP leaders had not even seen the omnibus package that has been prepared. Read a copy of the Republican letter here.
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