MEMORANDUM: RELEASE FROM REP. BUCHANAN’S OFFICE REGARDING HOUSE VOTE ON “SUNSHINE RESOLUTION”
January 14, 2010

Memorandum
TO: Interested Media/American Seniors Association Subscribers
FROM: The American Seniors Association
RE: Release regarding petition for house vote on “Sunshine Resolution”
Please see the below release sent by Rep. Vern Buchanan’s office, encouraging House members to sign a petition to ensure compliance with open government laws and regulations
If you have any questions or need additional information, please call Sally Tibbetts at 941-951-6643.

*Please contact your elected officials TODAY to demand that they sign the petition to encourage Congress and the White House to allow transparency and openness in all aspects of this health care debate. To contact your elected officials, visit our website at http://www.americanseniors.org/index.php/resources.
 
For Immediate Release                           
January 14, 2010 

Contact:  Sally Tibbetts,                                                        
941.951.6643 or 941.256.5452

Buchanan to Force House Vote on “Sunshine Resolution”

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan (FL-13), sponsor of the “Sunshine
Resolution” requiring public access to negotiations on the health care bill, announced today that he filed a discharge petition Wednesday to force a House vote on his proposal.

 “In Florida, we have one of the strongest right-to-know laws aimed at ensuring that government leaders conduct the people’s business in public,” said Buchanan.  “No private meeting, no backroom deals, no secrecy. It’s time to shine some Florida
Sunshine on the Halls of Congress.”

Back-room deals are being made to create a massive new entitlement program that seeks to overhaul a sixth of our country’s entire economy.  Buchanan’s resolution demands that meetings to discuss the final details of the health care reform bill be conducted in the open under the watchful eye of the American people.
 
“Health care reform is one of the largest public policy reforms taken up by Congress in generations,” added Buchanan.  “If enacted, the final bill will impact the lives of all Americans.  With so much at stake, any conference committee or meetings held to determine the content of sweeping national health care legislation should be held in full public view, not behind closed doors.”


Buchanan’s resolution was introduced in October of 2009 and is cosponsored by a bipartisan group of more than 150 lawmakers.  Once a majority of the House, 218 Members, has signed the discharge petition, it is placed on the House calendar over the objections of the House Speaker and Majority Leader.  Sweeping campaign finance reform legislation was the last bill to be brought to the House floor through a discharge petition. The measure was then passed by the House and signed into law.

*The following memorandum was issued by the American Seniors Association. For additional questions and concerns, please contact us at 3700 Mansell Road, Suite 220, Alpharetta, GA 30022.


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