Democrat Senate Passes 94% of Bills With no Debate

 If I remember correctly didn’t the Democrats promise a fair and open government before the 2006 election? Didn’t they promise a more transparent government? I believe that they did. Well, on top of all of their other broken promises and failed policies they have broken that promise.

 The Democrat controlled senate is the opposite of open and transparent, and it certainly isn’t fair. I am referring to the fact that 94% of the bills passed under the Democrat controlled senate were not debated in the open and were not even voted on.

the majority of bills that have passed in the Democrat-controlled Senate of the 110^th Congress have done so without any debate or even a vote.

a non-partisan study released on June 10 by the government’s Congressional Research Service (CRS), which indicates that 855 of the 911 bills passed by the Senate of the 110^thCongress have been streamlined by Democratic Party leadership with a procedural tactic known as Unanimous Consent (UC), which requires no debate or even a vote.

 This was obviously done so that nobody had to be held accountable for their votes.

“The U.S. Senate has a nine percent approval rating, because the American people believe that much of our work is done in secret with no debate, no transparency and no accountability,” Coburn told reporters at press conference Wednesday at the Capitol.
 
“This report shows that the reality is worse than the public’s fears. Instead of encouraging open debate, I’m disappointed that Majority Leader Reid often chooses secrecy or demagoguery,” he added.

 If they really had the courage of their convictions they would stand up in public and vote their conscience. But they don’t, they hide from their supposed convictions and are not even strong enough to let the American people see where they stand on the issues.

 I thought that debate on issues was good, wasn’t one of the Democrats biggest issues before the 2006 election the “rights of the minority” when talking about their own situation. They claimed that even though they were in the minority that they somehow still held an equal voice in the proceedings. Remember that they kept referencing the “rights of the minority must not be forgotten” and other such nonsense.

 Now that they are in the majority we hear nothing about the “rights of the minority” and in fact most bills are being passed without the minority even be able to have a voice at all. Funny how things change, huh? It all depends on who is in the majority.