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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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Go Tom go! Make them read the whole damn thing!
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:10:26 AM PST
by
Maelstorm
To: Maelstorm
The media and left are going nuts.
They’re reading it? Why? That is such a crime to read something before posting it.
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:11:49 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Join the Palin Beer Summit Putsch!!)
To: Maelstorm
Did Reid bring in a speed reader?
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:11:59 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: GeronL
I mean voting on it.
I never read anything before posting, duh.
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:12:49 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Join the Palin Beer Summit Putsch!!)
To: Maelstorm
Kill the individual mandate!!
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:13:30 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Join the Palin Beer Summit Putsch!!)
To: 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.This is really funny because Sanders knows this amendment will be defeated when he offered it. Is Coburn striking back because Reid is blocking GOP amendments?
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:14:05 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: Maelstorm
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:14:26 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Maelstorm
I’m loving it and praying that this nightmare doesn’t pass.
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:14:46 AM PST
by
SamiGirl
To: Maelstorm
13:15 EASTERN STANDARD TIME AND STILL READING!!!
LOVING IT
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:14:52 AM PST
by
garykfd
(American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God)
To: C19fan
Should make Congressmen who draft these things read them on the floor. The bills would be a lot shorter.
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:15:19 AM PST
by
Maelstorm
(Party like it's 1776)
To: Maelstorm
What kind of new tactic is this? Actually reading something BEFORE it is passed?
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:15:25 AM PST
by
SouthTexas
(Charge global warmers under RICO.)
To: Maelstorm
This is like Buford Pusser putting the judge’s office in the men’s room.
12
posted on
12/16/2009 10:16:13 AM PST
by
FrankR
(SENATE: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10...count on it.)
To: Maelstorm
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:16:21 AM PST
by
JPG
(Al Gore, the several million degree man.)
To: C19fan
I think it should be a requirement that all congresscritters and senators take a speedreading course — either that or refrain from producing 2,000 plus page bills.
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:18:47 AM PST
by
goldi
(')
To: Maelstorm
A GREAT thing to do.
To: Maelstorm
To: goldi
I went to the National Archives and I think I saw an original copy of one the first law, I believe hand written, ever passed by Congress, I think it dealt with immigration or who is a natural born citizen, and it was one page long. Perhaps they should require a handwritten version of the bill.
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:21:26 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: Albert Barr
what does this do to Reid’s time table?
he wanted to be done Christmas eve day.
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:22:11 AM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: GeronL
I never read anything before posting, duh.
Sen. Coburn does not approve. ;-)
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:22:51 AM PST
by
BJClinton
("Worse" technically is "change".)
To: Maelstorm
Hope they demand they read the entire bill once it is up for vote.
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posted on
12/16/2009 10:23:00 AM PST
by
3catsanadog
(If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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