Politics

Boehner's Many 72 Hour Pledges

By Paul Blumenthal

In the post below I noted that it's a bit surprising that the Read the Bill pledge was subverted by the majority not providing 72 hours of online, public review of the NPR defunding bill because of Speaker John Boehner's many public pledges that specify that 72 hour time frame.

Here's a selection of the many, many times that Speaker Boehner pledged 72 hours of public review for all bills.

Why not wait the extra 20 hours?

Full post as published by Sunlight Foundation on March 18, 2011 (boomark / email).