Bill Delahunt: “Can I just suggest, just on those two items alone, I would submit that that is disgraceful.”

What I am suggesting to you is there is another method that is far superior than vesting the authority in the executive without any check of balance.

If we do not address these issues from a public policy perspective, we put the free marketplace at risk.

I want to join with the American people in paying tribute to the Haitian people. Who have suffered so much. But who have proven so strong. While the world does all it can to help, it is the Haitian people, first and foremost, who are…

secrecy really is the hallmark of totalitarianism, and transparency is clearly an aspect of viable, healthy democracy.