House Resolution 554

This bill would require Internet posting of all non-emergency bills for 72 hours before the final vote. Speaker Pelosi is blocking it from the House floor. The way to get around her block is what's called a "Discharge Petition". It discharges the bill or petition to the floor for an immediate vote.

The names of members who have already signed the Discharge Petition are designated by green checkmarks and crossed-out names. If your Representative has signed, please call to express your appreciation. It means more than you might think.

Members whose names are in red are sponsors of the underlying House Resolution 554. Co-sponsors of H. Res 554 who have not yet signed the Discharge Petition are good candidates to do so if given enough encouragement. After you have determined what you need to do with respect to your own Representative, please start calling those in red who have not yet signed. Enter their state in the window above, then call or email them from the list of Members in that state, and so on.

Florida
Jeff Miller, 01 Allen Boyd, 02 Corrine Brown, 03 Ander Crenshaw, 04 Ginny Brown-Waite, 05 Cliff Stearns, 06 John Mica, 07 Alan Grayson, 08 Gus Bilirakis, 09	Bill Young, 10 Kathy Castor, 11 Adam Putnam, 12 Vern Buchanan, 13 Connie Mack, 14 Bill Posey, 15 Tom Rooney, 16 Kendrick Meek, 17 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, 18	Robert Wexler, 19 Debbie Wasserman Schultz, 20 Lincoln Diaz-Balart, 21 Ron Klein, 22 Alcee Hastings, 23 Suzanne Kosmas, 24 Mario Diaz-Balart, 25

If you live in another state, find your representative here.

Not everyone will take the time to read any bill or resolution posted on the Internet. I'll be honest: I wouldn't read probably most of them. My take on the subject is that the bill or resolution should be available for those who chose to read them.

This is supposed to be the most transparent Administration in history. So speaketh Speaker Pelosi herself. If she means what she says, why is she blocking this resolution? Why aren't all bills and resolutions, House and Senate both, posted where the "common" person, like you and me, can read it? Is it because they think we couldn't possibly understand it? Or are they trying to hide something? Like, the cost of the bill, or what is tacked on to it int he form of amendments that have nothing to do with the bill itself? Maybe it's because someone is afraid they don't have enough votes to vote down the resolution?

Maybe if this resolution is voted on and passed, We, The People, will feel like we have some power and someone is afraid that we just may be able to sway our representatives to voting how we want them to vote, not how the Administration wants those same representatives to vote.

I urge you to put your representatives feet to the fire and tell them how you want them to vote on this resolution, and all resolutions and bills. They are our employees, not our caretakers.

Speaker Pelosi, if you mean what you say about transparency in government, then release this resolution to the floor for a vote. Otherwise all you are doing is talking. I hear the words, do I hear what you really mean or what you want The People (your employers aka the voters. Remember them?) to hear?