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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
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To: oh8eleven
I just sent Coburn an email — thanks for the link.
To: SolomoninSouthDakota; BP2; The Wizard; Publius6961; onyx; potlatch; eggman; ProtectOurFreedom; ...
To: SamiGirl
Keep calling all senators 202-224-3121 and tell everyone you know to do so... Reid is planning a cloture vote on December 23! Raise Hell!
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posted on
12/16/2009 11:45:55 AM PST
by
mwl8787
To: carolina71
HOLY SHIT did Saders just pull his Amendment?!?!?!?!?
Sorry Mods
144
posted on
12/16/2009 11:46:13 AM PST
by
Brytani
(Support Lt. Col Allen West for Congress - www.allenwestforcongress.com)
To: wastedyears
No, REID can’t stop the reading. In fact, all bills are supposed to be read, unless the reading is waved, which is the usual procedure.
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posted on
12/16/2009 11:46:13 AM PST
by
onyx
To: clintonh8r
146
posted on
12/16/2009 11:46:16 AM PST
by
TornadoAlley3
(Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
To: carolina71
HOLY SHIT did Sanders just pull his Amendment?!?!?!?!?
Sorry Mods
147
posted on
12/16/2009 11:46:19 AM PST
by
Brytani
(Support Lt. Col Allen West for Congress - www.allenwestforcongress.com)
To: carolina71
HOLY SHIT did Sanders just pull his Amendment?!?!?!?!?
Sorry Mods
148
posted on
12/16/2009 11:46:29 AM PST
by
Brytani
(Support Lt. Col Allen West for Congress - www.allenwestforcongress.com)
To: wastedyears
He can try, but all bills must be read unless they obtain unanimous consent to forgo it. The bill currently being read was forced by only Coburn refusing to give his consent.
(Also, I meant DeMint in my original post, not Cantor).
To: mwl8787
Sanders withdraws amendment!!
150
posted on
12/16/2009 11:46:55 AM PST
by
The Citizen Soldier
(At the first of the year I feared for my grandkids... then it was my kids... now it's me.)
To: Maelstorm
BREAKING Live on CSPAN Bernie Sanders has just withdrawn his amendment
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posted on
12/16/2009 11:47:13 AM PST
by
VRWCTexan
(Obama-scare is the "real" Cash for Clunker Program!)
To: Maelstorm
I sure hope they keep going and don’t give into the media frenzy of making us the bad ones for demanding a reading.
152
posted on
12/16/2009 11:47:21 AM PST
by
Spunky
(You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
To: Brytani
Doh! It posted twice (hanging head in shame)
Wow, Barney’s mad his little socialist package is being outed....
Wouldn’ Barney want things outed?!?!?
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posted on
12/16/2009 11:47:40 AM PST
by
Brytani
(Support Lt. Col Allen West for Congress - www.allenwestforcongress.com)
To: The Citizen Soldier
YAAYYYY!!
Now, read the entire bill!
Now!
154
posted on
12/16/2009 11:48:03 AM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
To: Brytani
Darn! the Liberals always spoil our fun :(
To: oh8eleven
You can let the senator know you're supporting him 100% thru his webpage. I tried but the Captcha image will not display so I cannot submit my thank you.
To: Spunky
Via Twitter
Sen. Sanders just withdrew his single-payer amendment. (via @seanhackbarth)
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posted on
12/16/2009 11:50:04 AM PST
by
VRWCTexan
(Obama-scare is the "real" Cash for Clunker Program!)
To: RandallFlagg
Yes now is the time to force the reading of the whole rotten thing.
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posted on
12/16/2009 11:50:19 AM PST
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
To: The Citizen Soldier
Sanders looks like he's ready to have a heart attack, right there on the Senate floor.
Why is he so mad?
Because the Republicans are obstructing the Senate by demanding the reading of the amendment ..."which I knew would not pass."
Folks, they're losing it. Don't let up!!
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posted on
12/16/2009 11:50:35 AM PST
by
The Citizen Soldier
(At the first of the year I feared for my grandkids... then it was my kids... now it's me.)
To: Brytani
Actually it posted three times. I wish I could do that.
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