DC Delegate To Congress Says No Right To Know What White House Does

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Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting congressional delegate for the District of Columbia, angrily sputtered during a congressional hearing Friday that the White House should not be held up to scrutiny, saying that there was no right to know what it was doing behind closed doors.
"You don't have a right to know everything in a separation-of-powers government, my friend. That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation-of-powers government," Norton said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.
It was, to put mildly, a significant departure from the more traditional liberal stance that openness and transparency are must to prevent abuses of power by government officials. Instead the leading advocate for statehood for the District of Columbia literally argued that even the congressional committee charged with oversight shouldn't be asking questions in the first place.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/eleanor-holmes-norton-says-you-dont-have-a-right-to-know-whats-going-on-in-government/article/2551313

Eleanor Holmes Norton says 'you don't have a right to know' what's going on in government
BY SEAN HIGGINS

JULY 25, 2014 | 4:38 PM

U.S. Government Wastes $30 billion a Year

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Alleged Fort Hood Shooter Major Nadal Hasson, continues to get paid federal salary since the Military Code of Justice doesn’t allow a soldier to be suspended until they are found guilty. He made $52,952 in 2013 and $278,000 total since he allegedly killed 13 and injured 32 in 2009.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/12/17/10-Most-Absurd-Stories-Government-Waste-Year

Government Blatantly Wastes $30 Billion This Year
By BRIANNA EHLEY
The Fiscal Times
December 17, 2013

Keep Your Plan? End Of Obama Care

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It's the mathematics of small numbers as far as any enrollment is concerned. Well, it's not working. The exchanges themselves and the website aren't working and neither is the explanation of both failures. The problem is we have no experience rolling out things like this, at least for about 200 years of our history. When we rolled out, if that's what you want to call it, Social Security, it was a simple thing. Reach a certain age, we'll mail you a check. They know how to write checks, they know how to mail them out. This is a complicated system in which when you change something, something else changes and all of the whole structure of incentives goes sideways. 

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/11/13/george_will_no_need_to_repeal_obamacare_keep_your_plan_bill_effectively_ends_obamacare.html

George Will: No Need To Repeal, "Keep Your Plan" Bill Effectively Ends Obamacare