NPR Interactive Image The "Stakeholders" In The RoomSenate Finance Committee member Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) earnestly pleaded on Wednesday for the committee to delay a vote on its version of health care reform until after the proposed legislation has been up on the committee's website for at least three days. "The thing I'm trying to point out," said Roberts, "is that we would have at least 72 hours for the people that the providers have hired to keep up with all of the legislation that we pass around here, and the regulations that we pass around here, to say, 'Hey, wait a minute. Have you considered this?' That's all I'm asking for." Who are "the people that the providers have hired to keep up with all of the legislation"? They're the insurance inudstry lobbyists who wrote the bill in the first placeVideo From Think Progress:

During the Senate Finance Committee’s mark-up session of the health care reform bill today, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) — who has had a hard time staying awake during these meetings — offered an amendment that would have delayed “a committee vote for two weeks.”Bunning requested that the Committee put-off a vote on the health care [...]