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2 Days to Print and 50 Hours to Read: GOP Will Recite Entire Spending Bill on Senate Floor
The Blaze ^
| Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:27pm
| Jonathon M. Seidl
Posted on 12/16/2010 2:07:01 PM PST by Mozilla
It took two days to print and it will take even longer to read.
According to The Hill, Senate Republicans are going through with a plan to have the entire omnibus spending bill read on the Senate floor, a feat that wont be completed for 50 hours. Republicans have vowed to vote against the 1,924-page, $1.1 trillion bill that is loaded with billions in earmarks.
Senate clerks are expected to read the massive bill in rotating shifts around the clock taking breaks to drink water and pop throat lozenges to keep legislative business on track, according to a Democratic leadership aide, The Hill reports.
That would mean any Senate business would be stalled until Saturday evening.
If they bring this up, theyre going to read it. Itll take them a day or two to read it, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), whos been pushing for the recitation, told Fox News. Again, were trying to run out the clock. They should not be able to pass this kind of legislation in a lame-duck Congress.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congress; debt; demint; earmarks; omnibus; pork; read; spendingbill
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I see you bought into the leftist news reported last night. Lies coming from the left. Try to get the facts before spreading the lies.
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12/16/2010 3:47:16 PM PST
by
snippy_about_it
(Looking for our Sam Adams)
To: etcb
The important thing to remember about this is that because of senate rules, any senator can demand the reading of any bill. In a similar way, any senator can suggest the absence of a quorum at any time. So, if this doesn't happen every single republican senator is just as guilty as if he'd voted for the bill, and ushered it through to the vote himself. They depend upon you not knowing that so they can pretend to actually be doing something to stop these bills. The fact is, it's a huge charade, and we're the ones who end up paying for it.
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12/16/2010 10:21:36 PM PST
by
zeugma
(Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam)
To: CapnJack
Yeah right. And tomorrow Ill read thathe Repubs backed down from their request because someone in the press might say bad things about them. More bluster from the spinless repubs. Seems HR has pulled the bill. They don't want the earmarks read aloud.
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12/17/2010 9:15:43 AM PST
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SeeSac
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