Posted on 12/19/2009 1:37:02 PM PST by jazusamo
The Senate clerk has finished reading the text of the manager's amendment to the chamber's healthcare bill.
After roughly seven and a half hours of reading, the clerk concluded reading the 383-page manager's amendment to the bill, which was submitted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) earlier today.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) forced a reading of the amendment earlier today in a bid to string along the Senate healthcare debate.
In the interim, Senate Democrats announced an agreement with Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) to secure the necessary 60 votes to move forward with the bill. They also released the Congressional Budget Office score of the legislation showing it costs $871 billion.
Reid signaled on the Senate floor late Saturday afternoon that the Senate would remain on track with votes to meet its goal of voting on final passage for the Senate bill on Christmas Eve, confirming to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) that no more amendments would be permitted.
Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Coburn were scheduled to close down the day's activities with floor speeches, with the Senate scheduled to reconvene at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday.
I expect that the GOP will demand the entire bill be read (the bill that isn’t even out yet).
They had better not back down on that.
This heralds the Death of the Republic for which we stood.
demand they read it all.
I think the other 49 states should start preparing a lawsuit to challenge the special deal for Nebraska.
Call for the reading of every amendment and the entire flipping bill!
Call for the reading and have the first person to read it be legally blind so that the entire 2000 pages needs to be put into Braille first so as to not discriminate.
This heralds the Death of the Republic for which we stood.. Yes it is,,,
Agreed, the Repubs had better force the entire bill to be read.
What about reading it in Spanish, Korean, Chinese, etc
question for those who know: When the bill comes back from the house/senate conference...could it be filibustered then? Or will that be simply up or down?
Non discrimination. Read it in English, Spanish, French, Cantonese, Mandarin, German, Navajo (plus other Native American languages), Italian, Polish, Greek, Japanese, Korean ... maybe I found all of them spoken in the US.
Once they are read ... then take the vote.
What about reading it in Spanish, Korean, Chinese, etc
Illegals need to know what's in the bill, too
Doctor Tom is kicking ass with reason and intelligence...but he should be setting fire to the place and beating the snot out of someone. There will be no hearts and minds won...the Dems will jam through an unconstitutional bill that we wiull have to unravel either through counter legislation or by civil disobedience or worse....
After conference there will be changes and it’s my understanding it can be filibustered.
good, then it is still not quite a done deal. PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE!
Yes, they have the first three years of paying into it before the 'benefits' begin!
And how is a 871 billion bill a 'deficit reduction' bill?
I think they will need only 51 votes after the conference.
This bill is criminal.
It is a full act of treason.
Does anybody here happen to have a text of this bill, or is there one at all? What are they reading?
In Christ name
Amen
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