GOP Wants Votes Online Within 48 Hours
The Republican transparency train rolls on with Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., introducing legislation Wednesday that would require each of the 21 standing committees in the House to record votes on their Web sites within 48 hours. Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., sponsored a resolution last week calling for cameras to be installed in the House Rules Committee hearing room and freshman Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., recently sponsored a measure to require committees to post the text of adopted bills and amendments online within 24 hours.
"The American people deserve to know how their representatives vote in all cases, and frankly, in the current information age it makes no sense that we're not already providing this service," Reichert said in a press release. "When we're debating a trillion-dollar health overhaul, constituents deserve to know how legislation takes shape - throughout the entire process." House Minority Leader John Boehner said Reichert's resolution "is a common-sense reform that should have been adopted a long time ago in Congress."
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