Posted on 02/13/2009 4:47:00 AM PST by cc2k
Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 1 - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Thomas had no link at midnight when I finally turned in. When I woke up this morning, around 6:30, there was a blank link to the conference report. It was after 7:30 before the link to the rules committee appeared.
Does anyone have the text of the resolution that the House passed to allow 48 hours for the public to review this before they voted? Did it say a "searchable" version had to be posted?
Thank you for your vigilance..and those links. Very much appreciated.
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Awwwww.
[Crying towel alert]
Geraldo Rivera was on Fox&Friends. He said he had a bad dream that the stimulus bill didn’t work.
UN-Believable!
Not searchable text.
Of course not.
(burn)
I can’t get the file to download completely.
Is anyone else getting all 496 pps of the “A” report?
Just asking...
My download speed is too slow. How many pages is it?
This is wrong! Pure and simple...wrong. There is NO WAY that anyone can convince me that ANY of these talking head stuffed shirt Libtards have READ this piece tripe.
They were still porking it up ‘til late night, last night; hours after the announced ‘compromise’ by Reid and his thieving compatriots.
And, the 48-hour comment window promised by Pelosi? Don’t hold your breath. It ain’t happenin’...
It is searchable for me...
I wanted to make a suggestion.
If someone has Adobe Acrobat Full version, they can use OCR text recognition to turn the images into text.
Then you will be able to search.
Also, I don’t know if standard Adobe Reader will allow text search or not.
Thanks all for your diligence.
That's helpful news. Thanks!
All I am doing is clicking on the links and they auto open in Adobe as a web page and the Adobe search function works.
Just heard on ABC radio that Sen. Coburn wants to read every page of bill before voting on it. Only heard a snippet but they said there was some procedure he could use to delay vote. Anyone else hearing this?
I just called my congressdork’s office. I asked how he could possibly read and digest one page every 30 seconds until the vote at 3:30 today. No answer. I then asked if he was in his office digesting this legislation. No answer. I then told him that I was going to buy another house and two new cars, not pay my bill and have the government bail me out. I told him that I was sick of paying my bills, living within my means, eliminating my debt and getting screwed.
Well one way is to object to an unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of the bill on the floor of the Senate. It only takes one Senator to object to the unanimous consent. At that point the entire bill must be read into the record, in this case 1400- 1500 pages.
Let’s hope they do this. That will give everybody lots of time to digest what’s in this..and then hopefully barfing it out.
Why isn’t EVERY Republican demanding that Democrats abide by their own standard of putting the bill out for 48 hours before it is passed, and why isn’t EVERY Republican demanding that Obama wait 5 days before signing the bill like he promised during the campaign?
There's also Senate Rule XXVIII which states:
The problem with Rule 28 is that a 3/5ths vote (60 Senators) can set asside the objection.
9. (a)(1) It shall not be in order to vote on the adoption of a report of a committee of conference unless such report has been available to Members and to the general public for at least 48 hours before such vote. If a point of order is sustained under this paragraph, then the conference report shall be set aside.(2) For purposes of this paragraph, a report of a committee of conference is made available to the general public as of the time it is posted on a publicly accessible website controlled by a Member, committee, Library of Congress, or other office of Congress, or the Government Printing Office, as reported to the Presiding Officer by the Secretary of the Senate.
(b)(1) This paragraph may be waived in the Senate with respect to the pending conference report by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. A motion to waive this paragraph shall be debatable for not to exceed 1 hour equally divided between the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader or their designees.
(2) An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this paragraph. An appeal of the ruling of the Chair shall be debatable for not to exceed 1 hour equally divided between the Majority and the Minority Leader or their designees.
(c) This paragraph may be waived by joint agreement of the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader of the Senate, upon their certification that such waiver is necessary as a result of a significant disruption to Senate facilities or to the availability of the Internet.
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