Today former Congressman Ernest Istook testified before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee about the $105 billion slush fund in advance appropriations liberals tucked inside Obamacare. The $105 billion bypasses the traditional yearly budgeting process and is spread throughout the 2,700 page legislation. It took the Congressional Research Service (CRS) seven months to identify all the disparate funds and it was not until February (11 months after the bill passed) that all of the funds could be totaled up.
Well, Queen Nancy told us we’d have to pass the bill to find out what was in it. This one only took a little less than a year.
It looks kind of unseverable to me, too.
I’d add that anyone who knew about this and voted for it is either ignorant of the Constitution, or indifferent to it, or both. I’d bet on both in most cases, but if the latter, it’s a violation of their oath of office.
The spending might be legally constitutional. After all, Social Security and other “mandatory” spending are perceived to be constitutional.
Bachmann has been all over this; which means google will bring you all the attacks on Bachmann.
Very few of our elected officials seem to care about their oaths. Means even less to them than their campaign promises. “Honor?” heh!
I’m shocked, shocked to see this lack of transparency!
If this doesn’t push people to start recalls of their underhanded elected worms, nothing ever will. For the incumbents who won the last election, simply winning doesn’t delete that oath, and it doesn’t negate the lies.
Assuming the House hasn’t voted yet on a continuing resolution (I’ve been on Japan watch), Bachmann’s been pleading with voters to contact their reps to ask them to vote no on a resolution, unless this funding language is stripped from the health care legislation.
I’ve already told my congressman that not one thin dime of my money should be used to fund a program that a judge has already ruled unconstitutional, in a case in which my state is a party.