C-SPAN Challenges DEMOCRATS Congress To TV Coverage~ Pelosi Says NO!

Greta Van Susteren played a number of clips tonight from the 2008 campaign where Barack Obama told supporters that he was going to hold his health care talks on CSPAN. Obviously, that never happened. After playing the video Greta looked at Karl Rove and said, “It was a lie.”

C-SPAN Challenges Congress to Open Health Care Talks to TV Coverage
FOX News
The head of C-SPAN has implored Congress to open up the last leg of health care reform negotiations to the public, as top Democrats lay plans to hash out the final product among themselves.
C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb wrote to leaders in the House and Senate Dec. 30 urging them to open “all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings,” to televised coverage on his network.

“The C-SPAN networks will commit the necessary resources to covering all of the sessions LIVE and in their entirety,” he wrote.

Congressional leaders, however, reportedly are expected to bypass the traditional conference committee process, in which lawmakers from both parties and chambers meet to reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions of a bill. Instead, The Associated Press reports that top Democrats at the House, Senate and White House will figure out the final product in three-way talks before sending it back to both chambers for a final vote.
This format would seem ideal for closed-door meetings, which congressional Democrats have used many times to figure out sensitive provisions in the health care bill — though President Obama pledged during the campaign to open up health care talks to C-SPAN’s cameras.
Lamb urged Congress in his letter to fling open the doors in the final stretch of the negotiations…

“President Obama, Senate and House leaders, many of your rank-and-file members, and the nation’s editorial pages have all talked about the value of transparent discussions on reforming the nation’s health care system,” he wrote. “Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between the chambers, we respectfully request that you allow the public full access, through television, to legislation that will affect the lives of every single American.”

Weekly Standard

Phony Obama and his team sent out this email from one of their guys . David Plouffe sent out an e-mail to Obama supporters about how 2010 will be a year to “improve transparency in Washington to elevate the voices of the American people.”

Lamb’s full letter to Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner after the jump.
December 30, 2009
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi The Honorable Harry Reid Speaker Majority Leader
United States House or Representatives United States Senate
The Honorable John Boehner The Honorable Mitch McConnell
Minority Leader Minority Leader
United States House of Representatives United States Senate
Dear Speaker Pelosi:
Representative Boehner:
Senator Reid:
Senator McConnell:
As your respective chambers work to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate health care bills, C-SPAN requests that you open all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings, to electronic media coverage.
The C-SPAN networks will commit the necessary resources to covering all of these sessions LIVE and in their entirety. We will also, as we willingly do each day, provide C-SPAN’s multi-camera coverage to any interested member of the Capitol Hill broadcast pool.
Since the initial introduction of the America’s Affordable Health Care Act of 2009 in the House and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the Senate
C-SPAN has televised literally hundreds of hours of committee hearings, mark ups and floor debate on these bills for the public to see. And importantly, we have archived all of this video for future generations to study in the C-SPAN Video Archives.
President Obama, Senate and House leaders, many of your rank-and-file members, and the nation’s editorial pages have all talked about the value of transparent discussions on reforming the nation’s health care system.
Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between the Chambers, we respectfully request that you allow the public full access, through television, to legislation that will affect the lives of every single American.
We hope you will give serious consideration to this request. We are most willing to employ the latest digital technology to make the cameras, lights and microphones as unobtrusive as possible.
Please contact me if I can answer any questions.
Sincerely,
Brian Lamb

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Bye Bye Bipartisonship – Democrats Slam The Health Care Door

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Pelosi tells C-SPAN: ‘There has never been a more open process’ (Sorry C-SPAN, no cameras)
The Hill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) defended Congress’ work on a healthcare bill Tuesday saying the process has displayed historic transparency, just as C-SPAN mounts an effort to open the negotiations.
Pelosi said Congress has already been transparent throughout the process.

“There has never been a more open process for any legislation,” Pelosi said at a press conference.

Pelosi also hinted that holding informal negotiations–likely without TV cameras–might be the most practical way to push the legislation through.

“We will do what is necessary to pass the bill,” Pelosi said.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), assistant to the Speaker, said the healthcare bill had been “subjected to unprecedented level of public scrutiny.”

Pressed on whether C-SPAN cameras would be allowed in negotiations, Van Hollen hedged.

“We don’t even know if there’s going to be a conference committee,” he said, alluding to the likelihood that Democrats will reconcile the two bills behind closed doors.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
“Most transparent government “…..sure we really believe that….NOT!
It’s imperative that the Dems freeze out the Republicans and do this all themselves.And then the SOB democratic proponents of the bill will be all over the airwaves with the complicity of the MSM, talking about how Republicans came to the table with nothing It is then imperative that the incompetent pubes get on message and campaign with this news to prove to the voters just how out of control the Dems are.
“There has never been a more open process for any legislation,” Pelosi said at a press conference.
Her stupid boxtox has poisoned her brain cells.
Lying, incompetent hag, Pelosi’s purpose is evasion and epistemological corruption while she and Obama smuggle this country into a welfare state. She will never permit their real purpose to be identified. She silences, evades, suppresses any notion she and Obama are true Marxist’s.
Truth is Pelosi’s biggest fear. She is a fanatic with a mission. Socialism.
Pelosi would pluck your eye out and tell you that you looked better without it.