Posted on 02/13/2009 5:27:43 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Democratic Senator Predicts None of His Colleagues 'Will Have the Chance' to Read Final Stimulus Bill Before Vote Friday, February 13, 2009 By Ryan Byrnes and Edwin Mora
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) predicted on Thursday that none of his Senate colleagues would "have the chance" to read the entire final version of the $790-billion stimulus bill before the bill comes up for a final vote in Congress.
“No, I don’t think anyone will have the chance to [read the entire bill],” Lautenberg told CNSNews.com.
The final bill, crafted by a House-Senate conference committee, was posted on the Website of the House Appropriations Committe late Thurday in two PDF files.
The first PDF was 424 pages long and the second PDF was 575 pages long, making the total bill 999 pages long. The House is expected to vote on this 999-page bill Friday, and the Senate either later Friday or Saturday. [Editor's note: The first PDF, as posted on the House Appropriations Committee website as of 8:20 AM Friday morning, had grown by 72 pages to 496 pages, increasing the length of the total document to 1,071 pages.]
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Does ANYONE have a link to the final bill? It was released LAST NIGHT and there is no public availability.
REID IS HIDING IT from public examination.
Pelosi/Reid/Obama have not only cut the Republicans out of debating this bill... they’ve cut the Democrats out too! LOL
Let’s see if I have this right.
Frank Lautenburg is saying that he will vote to pass a bill that he admittedly hasnt read??
The emperor has no clothes!
A national travesty that will bind future generations to the yoke of debt needed to fund the socialism wrought by government, from the New Deal though the Great Society to the Raw Deal.
Another BOHICA moment in American History.
Reid is also hiding it from examination by House and Senate members.
Why read it when we know it’s perfect? Besides, catastrophic events will occur if the bill isn’t enacted!
We’re doomed! Stop reading! Start voting!
Let’s get spending!
Com’on, it’s only paper until you spend it!
I really hate this bill...not to mention the deal about subsidizing mortgages.
That proposed program poses so pertinent posers, to wit:
1) Who gets the subsidy?
2) How much is the subsidy?
3) Will the subsidies ever stop?
4) Will the recipients be required to pay back the subsidies at some time?
This plan won’t work either.
Ugh.
Actually reading the multitrillion dollar boondoggle Porksimus Maximus ................. PRICELESS
When have they ever read what they vote on?
The best chance the repubs have for a landslide in ‘10 is exposing the staff of the dims - and all of their radical and lobbiest connections....
I believe either Pelosi or Reid is actually on record as saying that the Republicans don’t need to see it if they’re voting against it.
Animal Farm all the way.
“Does ANYONE have a link to the final bill? It was released LAST NIGHT and there is no public availability.
REID IS HIDING IT from public examination.”
Easy to find with Google:
Front page of their website
It is common knowledge that most -- if not all -- bills, are not read by the Senators and Reps who vote for them.
Guess what -- Obama (the lawyer) hasn't read it either, although that won't stop him from lecturing us that it needs to be passed immediately.
If this bill is so “urgent,” why is only 30% of being spent in 2009?
Why not just pass the 30% portion now and debate the rest of non-urgent spending?
Frank Lautenberg will do exactly what he's always done - he will vote exactly as the Democratic Party leadership tells him to vote.
It doesn't matter what is in or not in the bill. He only needs to know which of two words it is, "Yes" or "No."
Useless cadaver.
I was never superstitious about Friday the 13th.
I am now.
The files are very large pdf’s. It is in 2 sections.
The first one 6 mbs
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