Sullivan Calls On Democrats To Televise National Healthcare Reform Negotiations

Statement

Today, Congressman John Sullivan issued the following statement slamming the Democrat Leadership in the House and Senate for continuing to keep the American people in the dark by rejecting CSPAN's offer to televise their ongoing - closed door -- national healthcare reform negotiations. Sullivan, who is a proud cosponsor of H.Res. 847, a resolution expressing the sense of Congress that any negotiations on national health care legislation be open and transparent to the public, continued his calls for greater transparency in the process and for all healthcare meetings and negotiations to be televised live on CSPAN so the American people can see firsthand how their tax dollars are being spent. What's in this bill they don't want the American people to see?

"From the beginning, the healthcare debate being waged in Washington has lacked transparency, bipartisanship, and good old fashioned common sense -- and now the American people are demanding to know why the Democrat leadership has refused to allow CSPAN to televise their closed door negotiations, they want to know what is in this bill that the Democrats don't want them to see. With so much at stake, the American people deserve an honest and open debate on this trillion dollar government takeover of our healthcare system -- they deserve to know what is in this bill."

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