Posted on 02/13/2009 11:25:48 AM PST by Joiseydude
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) predicted on Thursday that none of his Senate colleagues would "have the chance" to read the entire final version of the $790-billion stimulus bill before the bill comes up for a final vote in Congress.
“No, I don’t think anyone will have the chance to [read the entire bill],” Lautenberg told CNSNews.com.
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Then they better do something about it and quick, like do not vote.
Well then what do we need “representatives” for? If everyone who votes, doesn’t need to read and understand everything they vote on, we the people could do that, we don’t need a middleman.
Ya’ think???? Thank you Captain Obvious. Then how ‘bout you don't VOTE for it until you've had time to read the fine print — isn't that what you're whipping up on all the people who signed for mortgages they couldn't afford and a credit they couldn't maintain? DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT TAKE A LESSON — NOT FROM ANCIENT HISTORY, EINSTEIN, BUT FROM TWO MONTHS AGO!!!!!!!!
Do you think you might have enough brain cells still firing to form the word, “No,” and not just “no,” but “Hell, no!!!” Of course not...their all as dumb as they look and corrupt as we think.
I was venting — that’s, “They’re are all as dumb as they look...”
They could place the telephone book into the record and these idiots would stand up and vote for it.
I doubt anyone would have read it even if they did have a chance. To paraphrase Obama: “When was the last time a bill got passed where anyone actually read what they were voting for?”
Here we are told that we overreached on our credit cards because we didn’t read the fine print, our interest rate went up because we didn’t read the fine print, our car loans were unaffordable because we didn’t read the fine print we are in so much trouble financially cause we didn’t read the fine print...I guess these guys are just typical American citizens. They’re just one of us:) (sarc.)
Maybe they could pass a Stimulus Plan that gives a guy named Tim in Wilmington NC $200 Billion and not even read it.
LOL Got a lady here in Houston that would like that too.
Now that we know all about Snowe and Collin’s drug family problems; it’s out in the open; so maybe they should reconsider and not vote for the stimulis package.
How is it possible that the rules to have the full bill read before the vote be avoided? I thought the Senate rules were that if a single senator asked to have it read, it must be read.
Has the senate altered its rules? Who is holding a gun to the head of all the senators so nobody requests the reading?
Somebody tell me truthfully that the procedures have not altered so much in recent years? Please.
Snowe and Collins both like to hit the Maine homegrown bud.
I heard that they sell it to Teddy kennedy to help him with his brain pain!
I don’t know how any dimwit, even a democrat, could vote for a bill that they don’t know what’s in it
Basically so. At some point the leader will proffer a unanimous consent request that includes waiving the reading. Absent objection, the reading is waived.
I have seen only one bill of any length read from the floor, and maybe 10 short ones (paragraph or so), in about 2 years of watching daily. The procedures haven't changed.
What is the vote requirement for passage in the Senate?
For Democrats stimulus bills are like sausages, you probably don’t want to know what goes into them before you have to partake of them.
It takes unanimous consent to agree to take the vote, and if unanimity doesn't exist (if there is one objector), then it takes 60 to get around the objection and set a time to take the vote.
Waiving a statutory point of order takes 60 votes. E.g., the bill is off budget.
Passage is a majority of those voting.
It is not uncommon for the senate to agree to combine one of the inevitable 60 vote hurdles with a vote on final passage, and just agree that it takes 60 votes to obtain final passage. IOW, take one vote at a 60 hurdle, instead of one at 60 and one at majority.
Passage of treaties takes 2/3rds, per the constitution.
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