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Ander Crenshaw Is Sponsoring This Bill! If You Are in This Treasonous Traitors District Like I Am Call and Give Them A Piece of Your MIND!!
Ander Crenshaw Is Sponsoring This Bill! If You Are in This Treasonous Traitors District Like I Am Call and Give Them A Piece of Your MIND!!
ANDER CRENSHAW IS SPONSORING THIS BILL! IF YOU ARE IN THIS TREASONOUS TRAITORS DISTRICT LIKE I AM CALL AND GIVE THEM A PIECE OF YOUR MIND!! Go here https://www.popvox.com and voice your opinion to your rep put in the HR5882 in the right hand corner! Then call your rep at 202 225 3121 and tell them NO to HR5882!!
https://forms.house.gov/htbin/formproc_za/writ e/crenshaw/zipauth.txt&form=/write/crenshaw/email.shtml (email him here!)
CALL NOW TO THE HOUSE!!!! THIS MUST BE STOPPED! THIS WILL MAKE IT EVEN HARDER TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THESE TRAITORS ARE DOING AND DOES NOT ALLOW 3rd PARTIES TO GIVE OPINION IE THE TRUTH ON THE BILLS COMING OUT OF CONGRESS! If you are in Cantors or Houses District they are opposing this bill!
AND YOU WONDER WHY THIS IS IN THE HOUSE!!!CALL THE HOUSE NOW202 225 3121
http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/h _r_5882_would_make_it_harder_to_t rack_congress_govtrack_us H.R. 5882 would make it harder to track Congress
GovTrack is asking you to tell your representative to fix H.R. 5882.
The American public cant be trusted with records about what Congress is doing, at least according to Congressman Crenshaw (FL4) and the subcommittee he chairs. H.R. 5882 may come to the floor this week with Crenshaws provision that rolls back the clock on transparency.
Read Sunlight Foundations explanation for how the committee is putting a damper on progress in transparency Learn why this isnt just about accountability, from the Cornell Universitys Legal Information Institute
H.R. 5882 is the bill to fund Congresss staff and support agencies for 2013. Crenshaw is the chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch and the sponsor of H.R. 5882.
Universities have lobbied against the DATA Act. The Association of American Universities warned that the bill would increase compliance costs for cash-strapped higher education institutions and could force some schools to increase tuition costs to cover paperwork and other administrative burdens. Viewpoint Ellen Miller, co-founder and executive director, Sunlight Foundation: We all agree on a few basic principles: government spending must be transparent and citizens engaged with government online; they must be met step-by-step with tools that empower them to track every dollar the government spends.... In providing genuine accountability for government spending, the government must keep in mind three principles. First, transparency is governments responsibility. Second, public information must be online. Third, data quality and presentation matter. Data should be made available online in a timely fashion so that it can be easily found and reused by anyone subject only to common sense limitations. I think there have been significant strides in this administrations efforts at creating a transparent and open government. I believe it could be done faster. I think it could be done better.... The number of people who are going online to receive information, the numbers are increasing astronomically. So while I think the administration is taking significant steps, we need to go much further and faster and this legislation [DATA Act] would put many of the reporting responsibilities into law with enforcement mechanisms we think are important. Viewpoint Walter Oleszek, senior specialist, Congressional Research Service report: How to distinguish reasonable legislative secrecy from impractical transparency is a topic that produces disagreement on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. Why?... To produce an act of Congress involves members and many other relevant actors who come together - meeting publicly and privately - to craft policies that they believe promote and serve the national interest. Both secrecy and transparency suffuse the lawmaking process. The two are not either/or constructs; they overlap constantly during the various policy-making stages.... Legislative secrecy...has been part of the policy-making process from Congresss very beginning and it remains an integral aspect of the lawmaking process. The Framers - who drafted the U.S. Constitution in closed meetings - even included a secrecy provision in that document.... Secrecy has its place in Congress, especially in building winning coalitions behind the scenes through horse trading and other means. Persuasion is typically more effective in private than in a public setting. Although secrecy carries a negative connotation, for more than 200 years it has been recognized by numerous legislative practitioners as essential to the conduct of congressional business.