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Coburn Forces Reading of 767-Page Single Payer Amendment
http://spectator.org/ ^ | 12.16.09 | By Philip Klein

Posted on 12/16/2009 10:10:26 AM PST by Maelstorm

Sen. Tom Coburn has just demanded that the Senate clerk read the single-payer amendment offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders -- and it's 767 pages.

Typically, Senators offering amendments will ask for unanimous consent to avoid reading the entire meausure, but all it takes is one Senator to object to demand its reading, and Coburn objected to Sanders attempt to dispense with the reading of the amendment.

To give you a sense of how this could delay things, it took the Senate clerk 18 minutes to get through the first 6 pages of the amendment, which were the table of contents. At this current pace, it will take 38 hours to get through the entire amendment.

You can follow along with the amendment here.

UPDATE: The body of the bill seems to be going faster than the table of contents, but it still looks likely to take at least 12 hours at this pace

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: 111th; berniesanders; bhohealthcare; care; coburn; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; drtom; health; healthcare; hellthcarefromhell; killthebill; obama; obamacare; politics; pravdamedia; saulalinsky; singlepayer; socialism; socialist; socializedmedicine; starkravingsocialism; truthhurts
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To: Maelstorm
To read it is to recognize it for what it is.

To recognize it for what it is is to want to kill it.

Read it. Kill it.

This amendment.

The whole bill.

101 posted on 12/16/2009 11:11:55 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: library user

I was just thinking that....ROFL!


102 posted on 12/16/2009 11:12:34 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Maelstorm

There are lots of reasons I love Coburn - this is just one.


103 posted on 12/16/2009 11:14:51 AM PST by fwdude (It is not the liberals who will destroy this country, but the "moderates.")
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To: AtlasThugged316

ROFL!! Good one!


104 posted on 12/16/2009 11:15:06 AM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Rush is reporting that Nancy Pelosi told her people in the House that she is through being first with contraversial issues... that in 2010 the Senate will have to first tackle those issues...LOL.


105 posted on 12/16/2009 11:15:42 AM PST by onyx
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To: Recovering_Democrat
He ought to use that unlimited debate rule to re-read the bill—after the clerk reads it.

Great idea! I just with the rest of the GOP senators would join in.

106 posted on 12/16/2009 11:17:05 AM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: Maelstorm

Hurrah, Senator Coburn! You are a man of great courage and I support your work here and elsewhere.


107 posted on 12/16/2009 11:18:09 AM PST by veracious
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To: Springfield Reformer; GeronL; Maelstorm; All
Here is Sen Mitch McConell :

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Press Conference on Health Care---Today

Some very good basic Facts...that never get reported in the Headlines....

108 posted on 12/16/2009 11:18:50 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: onyx

Well that will be an improvement....by the way see the streaming video link just above at post #108.


109 posted on 12/16/2009 11:20:32 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: 2Jedismom

WAY TO GO, SENATOR COBURN!!!!!!!!!!!


110 posted on 12/16/2009 11:21:58 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Maelstorm

Go Tom go!


111 posted on 12/16/2009 11:22:55 AM PST by kidd (Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
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To: library user
DAY-um!

Hell, have her read the entire bill.

Pay-per-View Baby!

And that's with her clothes on, too!

112 posted on 12/16/2009 11:23:09 AM PST by mcmuffin (Will American patriots and freedom prevail?)
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To: kidd

Maybe they can release it as a podcast on iTunes.


113 posted on 12/16/2009 11:23:39 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Maelstorm

Mr. Speaker! I demand that Senator Tolstoy’s entire War and Peace amendment be read aloud!


114 posted on 12/16/2009 11:24:29 AM PST by PJ-Comix ("They spent a trillion dollars on a guess?" ---Astute DUmmie observation)
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To: 444Flyer
RE: The poster showing someone using Preparation H instead of toothpaste.

That actually happened to my sister.

She called poison control, and had a hard time getting them to stop laughing in order to give her advice.

I swear this is true.

115 posted on 12/16/2009 11:24:52 AM PST by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

See link at post #109,...Mitch diagrams it....


116 posted on 12/16/2009 11:25:36 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I see the link. Thank you!


117 posted on 12/16/2009 11:26:17 AM PST by onyx
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Whoops...that should be #108.


118 posted on 12/16/2009 11:26:48 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Maelstorm

Oh yeah baby!!

Thanks Mael...


119 posted on 12/16/2009 11:27:35 AM PST by kimmie7 (THE CROSS - Today, Tomorrow and Always!)
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To: Maelstorm

After this is read, the Republicans should vote with the dumbocrats to include this amendment. That way, Joe Leiberman will vote with the pubbies to not cut off cloture and we can kill this thing. Put the government run health plan option back in this thing. Would this be too clever by half? Can we not count on Joe Leiberman to vote against it?


120 posted on 12/16/2009 11:27:57 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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