Nope, what happened was that Harry Reid attempted to ramrod the bill to a vote (it hadn't even been printed yet) over two business days, one recess day, and one weekend. A draft of the bill in non-legislatiev language was finally made available to members on Friday night.
STo sum up, the bill was announced on a Tuesday evening, and Reid wanted a vote on the following Monday night or Tuesday morning.
There was little need to start "arguing a good bill" because there was no printed bill to work from, it was unknown what it contained, and Harry Reid was stating that it would be at least two weeks (after his proposed vote) that the bill would be made available outside of the Senate.
Seems to me that's a significant violation of Senate comity and protocol.
Oh yeah, the bill never went though any committe hearing.
Amid accusations that one group of us didn’t want what’s best for the country and another that called the first group traitors.
Good night, angkor. Thanks for the good discussion.
Cheers,
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