07-17-2008, 01:44 PM
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Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007
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DEMOCRATIC PROMISE #49: Restore Fiscal Responsibility
Promise: “Democrats offer a New Direction which includes fiscal responsibility.”
– Democratic Caucus Chairman James Clyburn, Press Release, October 10, 2006
Promise: “We will work together to lead the House of Representatives with a commitment to integrity, to civility, and to fiscal responsibility.”
– Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Press Release, November 16, 2006
Promise: “It is imperative to the future of our nation that we come together – Democrats and Republicans – and restore fiscal responsibility.”
– Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Press Release, January 23, 2007
Broken Promise: “[Now-Democratic Whip James Clyburn (D-SC)] also said he loves appearing in the [Citizens Against Government Waste] Pig Book. ‘I want to be there as often as I possibly can for as much money as I possibly can,’ he said.”
– “Clyburn Defends Budget Earmarks,” The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC), February 21, 2007
Broken Promise: “…Democrats resorted to begging, threatening and, worst of all, bribing members for their votes with $21 billion in pork-barrel projects…Loading a bill that’s supposed to keep our soldier in bullets, boots, and beans with pork-barrel bribes for congressional colleagues must be a low point in the history of the U.S. Congress. This destroys any pretense Democrats have to being a party of fiscal responsibility and good government.”
– “Buying Votes; Military Funding Bill a Stain on Congress,” The Gazette Editorial (Colorado Springs, CO), March 27, 2007
Broken Promise: “It’s hard to say which is worse: [Democratic] leaders offering peanuts for a vote of this magnitude, or members allowing their votes to be bought for peanuts.” – “Pork Has No Place in ‘Emergency’ War Bill,” USA Today Editorial, March 22, 2007
http://republicanleader.house.gov/br.../p_fiscal.html
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They promised to restore fiscal responsibility then do this:
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H.R.4105
Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007
To impose a moratorium on the use of recovery audit contractors under the Medicare Integrity Program.
Sponsor
* Rep. Lois Capps [D, CA-23]
* and 97 Co-Sponsors
All Bill Actions
* Nov 07, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
* Nov 07, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means
* Nov 07, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
* Introduced on Nov 07, 2007.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4105/show
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Why would congress even propose a bill like this? A Moratorium on auditing Medicare Billing, are they crazy? Thats like giving the medical billers amnesty for overcharges! As disgusting as that may be, 21 of the co-sponsors are Republicans.
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