A press release from Representatives Issa and Sensenbrenner on the lack of transparency from Team Obama while debating new carbon emission regulations. An excerpt:
Ranking Members Issa, Sensenbrenner Demand Joint Committee Probe on Carbon Emissions ‘Vow of Silence’
June 11, 2009
WASHINGTON. D.C. — House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and House Select Committee on Global Warming Ranking Member James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), in a letter to Chairmen Towns and Markey, demanded a joint investigation of a reportedly deliberate effort to circumvent transparency requirements in the formulation of carbon emissions regulations.
“Negotiating back room deals with select special interests, insisting that nothing is ever written and refusing to respond to legitimate Congressional oversight inquiries stand in direct contradiction to President Obama’s pledge of openness and transparency,” said Issa. “Negotiating new policy though winks and nods to prevent paper trails is a rotten practice regardless of where one stands on these costly regulations.”
“I find it ironic that while the President is espousing the virtues of unprecedented levels of openness and transparency in his government, members of his Administration have embraced an inside-the-beltway mentality which does very little to build public trust,” Sensenbrenner said. “The American public deserves to know its government is writing the regulations and laws that will have severe and lasting impacts on the economy and their lives. Congress should investigate these back-room deals with the same intensity it devoted to investigating past Presidential Administrations.”





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