Well, god bless them, no wonder they never legislate.
August 26, 2014
By Rebecca Kaplan
The House of Representatives (click here) will pay a law firm $500 an hour to represent them in their lawsuit against President Obama, a move that drew scorn from their Democratic counterparts.
By Rebecca Kaplan
The House of Representatives (click here) will pay a law firm $500 an hour to represent them in their lawsuit against President Obama, a move that drew scorn from their Democratic counterparts.
According to a contract released by Rep. Candice Miller, R-Michigan, the chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, the House has retained the services of David Rivkin, a partner at the law firm Baker & Hostetler LLP. The contract authorizes a rate of $500 per hour for work as well as a cap of $350,000 on the litigation.
The House voted 225 to 201 in late July to proceed with the lawsuit, which alleges that the president overreached on his authority by unilaterally changing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The vote broke down along party lines, with the exception of five Republicans who voted against moving forward with the suit....
I am a little bit worried. I would like full disclosure to the costs as they add up to understand what Americans are sacrificing for the political rantings of the USA House and the FOIA has a back log. (click here)
By the time we get the information on the lawyer's hours, his assistants, research time, travel time and travel costs it might be really expensive and too late to bill the GOP before the end of the 2014 elections. The GOP usually runs deficits in funding including their superpacs. They have to pay for books in print like Ryan's latest revelations.
By the time we get the information on the lawyer's hours, his assistants, research time, travel time and travel costs it might be really expensive and too late to bill the GOP before the end of the 2014 elections. The GOP usually runs deficits in funding including their superpacs. They have to pay for books in print like Ryan's latest revelations.
