Pelosi: 'Let's have transparency'

Nancy Pelosi wants the supercommittee to open its doors.

In an appearance Wednesday on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," the House minority leader said it's time for the 12-member panel to go before the cameras and lay out where the lawmakers stand as a Thanksgiving deadline rapidly approaches.

"Now, what we should say to the 12 people on the supercommmittee: Get in a room, sit down, reach agreement on public television," the California Democrat told Stewart. "Let's have transparency, an open meeting — where we see everybody's proposals and suggestions on the table — an explanation of them, what they would mean to not that table but the kitchen table of all America's families."

The crowd applauded.

The committee has been highly secretive in its negotiations until the last couple days as the two sides have traded charges that the other is trying to block a deal.

Asked about the process earlier Wednesday, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl — a committee member — said he couldn't defend it but promised that if there's a far-reaching deficit-cutting deal, there will be "plenty of time" to debate and consider it.