WASHINGTON, D.C. – Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, today cosponsored House Resolution 847 which expresses the Sense of the House of Representatives that any conference report, or other health care reform negotiations, should be conducted under the watchful eye of the American people.

“Transparency is an essential part of any government that derives its authority from the consent of the people,” said Rehberg, a member of the House Labor Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee.  “It’s when the legislation is the most controversial that this transparency is the most important, and yet, it is this controversy that has prompted some of my colleagues to shut the public out of the process completely.”

Rehberg, who also signed a pledge not to vote for any health care bill that hasn’t been online for at least 72 hours and that he hasn’t personally read, joined colleagues last week in asking the President and Congressional Leaders to fulfill campaign-trail promises and televise health care negotiations on C-SPAN.