Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) raised the issue of the impropriety of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius fundraising for Obama’s super PAC. Since Obamacare gives Sebelius a great deal of power over employers and health agencies, if she’s acting as a fundraiser could lead interested parties to feel compelled to donate to President Obama’s PAC. The Foundry has the details:
Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), ranking member on the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, said the move creates a “self-evident” conflict of interest for the secretary.
Because Sebelius has broad authority to implement sweeping new health care regulations, Enzi said in a letter to the president, “it would be particularly inappropriate to also have her participate in these fundraising events.”
“The potential for health care stakeholders to perceive a compulsion to financially participate in these activities, to possibly avert subsequent adverse regulatory decisions, is self evident,” Enzi added.
A source familiar with committee workings told Scribe that Enzi will ask Sebelius about this potential conflict at Wednesday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing on the president’s proposed budget, where Sebelius will testify.
The secretary’s authority over the new Obamacare law has even extended to decisions about which entities will be forced to comply with it. Given the burdensome financial and regulatory requirements of the law, numerous companies will have a direct and substantial interest in pushing to exempt themselves from those requirements.
“In light of this potential conflict of interest,” Enzi wrote, “I request that you reconsider your Administration’s decision to allow Secretary Sebelius to attend such fundraising events.”
Read the whole thing, including Enzi’s letter to Obama.
For someone who was so against Super PACs, Obama sure was quick to dispatch some of his top officials to help them raise money. Talk about influence peddling.
I did a quick search for video of the hearing but couldn’t find anything. If it becomes available I’ll be sure to post it.
Tags: fundraising, Kathleen Sebelius, obama, obamacare, Senator Mike Enzi, Super PAC
We are barraged daily with the idea that democracy is in itself good and that progressive governmental control is what is best for us. I think LC does a good job of keeping us up to date on the effects we feel today as a result of over one hundred years of the two being foisted off on us as desirable. I read two articles today that shed light on how the two policies have been strangling freedom and liberty, and if you’re not part of the choir, may bring you up to speed. The policies are our true enemy, the who implementing the policies, much less so.
The ‘Progressive’ Legacy
http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell73.1.html
Democracy Is Destroying Your Wealth and Freedom
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/karsten1.1.1.html
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This is just another one of Obama’s little Gangsta moves. If it looks unethical, oh well. If it is illegal, oh well. If it is “Unconstitutional”, oh well. Whatcha gonna do? Call US Attorney General Eric Holder over at the “Justice” center and see how far that goes.
One solution, Vote Obama OUT and the rest will follow!
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…”Vote Obama OUT and the rest will follow!”…
No they won’t, it is the movement that has to be dealt with not the person. Obama is a start, but the “permanent government” has to be cleansed.
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