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Who Read 1,582-Page $1.1T Spending Bill? Congressman: ‘Nobody Did’
Cybercast News Service ^
| January 16, 2014 - 5:20 PM
| Barbara Boland
Posted on 01/17/2014 12:34:32 PM PST by Olog-hai
When asked whether he read the 1,528-page, $1.1 trillion government spending bill before he voted for it yesterday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said, “Nobody did!” […]
In an e-mail to CNSNews.com, Blumenauer’s communications director, Patrick Malone, said: “A reminder that the Republicans complained and complained about not having time to read bills when the Dems were in charge and then keep dropping bombs like this on us.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: earlblumenauer; fiscalcliff; spendingbill; trillions; uniparty
More boasting out of the DemRep Uniparty.
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posted on
01/17/2014 12:34:32 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
keep dropping bombs like this on us
Oh please, it's more like an early Christmas present. The dems love it.
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posted on
01/17/2014 12:37:25 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Olog-hai
....and we wonder why we are in the shit show in which we currently reside...
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posted on
01/17/2014 12:38:13 PM PST
by
Fedupwithit
(Your opinion: It's all yours....don't expect me to listen to it, or even acknowledge it..)
To: Olog-hai
Have to spend it to see what’s in us.
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posted on
01/17/2014 12:40:01 PM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
To: Olog-hai
Yep, these Republicrats are killing us.
It really is us against them.
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posted on
01/17/2014 12:40:52 PM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(....Let It Burn...)
To: Olog-hai; GeronL; RKBA Democrat; Finny; who knows what evil?; Norm Lenhart; Lazamataz
What Difference does it make? /sarc
Uniparty Ping
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posted on
01/17/2014 12:41:57 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: All
most of the bills aren’t read by most of the politicians... so business as usual...
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posted on
01/17/2014 12:43:24 PM PST
by
VAFreedom
(maybe i should take a nap before work)
To: VAFreedom
Someone has to ad to a bill that no one will read a law requiring everyone who votes for it, or signs it MUST read it or go to jail.
It’ll make it by, just put it 100 pages from the end.
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posted on
01/17/2014 2:04:35 PM PST
by
cableguymn
(It's time for a second political party.)
To: cableguymn
I bet vrry few of these nitwits in congress can read...let alone understand what they are trying to read. Loser degenerates, I say.
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posted on
01/17/2014 6:41:26 PM PST
by
ogen hal
(First amendment or reeducation camp)
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