Senate Dems Unveil $1.1 TRILLION Spending Bill

The Hill ^ | Dec. 14, 2010

[T.L.Sink]

Senate Democrats have filed a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that would fund the government through fiscal 2011. The 1924-page bill includes funding to implement the sweeping healthcare bill Congress passed earlier this year [ObamaCare]. The package drew swift rebuke from Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee. "This bill is loaded up with pork projects and should not get a vote. Congress should listen to the American people and stop this reckless spending," Thune said in a statement.

[oldbill]

The capacity of the printing presses at the Bureau of Engraving

German money required to buy one loaf of bread in the Weimar Republic, 1923

[fella]

I thought that all bills regarding spending and taxing had to originate in the house and not the senate.

[American Constitutionalist]

JUST SAY NO TO THIS BILL !!

[American Constitutionalist]

" We will find out what’s in it.... AFTER it passes "

If you translate that, what they REALLY think of us people is that we are just another bowel movement.

[Molly Pitcher]

Aren’t spending bills supposed to originate in the HOUSE?? Have we gone that far from the Constitution? Maybe we have...

[T.L.Sink]

I heard McConnell give the excuse that his earmark had been promised long before he agreed to stop earmarks. I think it’s a pretty lame excuse. (As in lame-duck) Maybe these guys need some kind of Ten Step program like alcoholics have to break the addiction!

[crescen7]

“Aren’t spending bills supposed to originate in the HOUSE?? Have we gone that far from the Constitution? Maybe we have...”

This is exactly my question.

We usually get some comic book level twisted explanation of why things like this really don’t violate the requirement for spending bills to originate in the House, but now we don’t even get that.

[T.L.Sink]

Maybe I’m wrong but I thought it did originate in the House and when it went to the Senate they made changes in it, as they have the right to do, before it goes before a Conference committee for reconciliation and a final bill.

[Molly Pitcher]

Thank you for the confirmation....sometimes I think all this insanity is making me crazy too.

[fella]

The article reads as if the bill is originating in the Senate. It's been done many times before disregarding The Constitution.

[DuncanWaring]

$1.1 trillion bill?

Pikers.