Proposal Requires House to Post Bills on Web 72 Hours Before Vote

Monday, September 28, 2009
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – Before health care legislation or any other issue is voted on by Congress, the public should have 72 hours to review it, according to a bipartisan resolution in the House.

The resolution comes in a year when a $787 billion stimulus bill, with 1,073 pages, was approved after the public had just 12 hours to review the final version. The $846 billion cap-and-trade legislation that passed the House this summer was 1,428 pages long and available just 16 hours before the vote. the rest