Coburn Forces Reading of 767-Page Single Payer Amendment

http://spectator.org/ ^ | 12.16.09 | By Philip Klein

[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

[BufordP]

:-)

[RasterMaster]

Message of THANKS sent! Now if the rest of the states would elect folks like Coburn & Inhofe, we could halt the DUmocrat agenda in its tracks!

[Enchante]

I have a friend who worked on a film for 3 months with Salma as one of the leads....... he said every day, sometimes every hour, he had to empty his drool cup..... :^)

[Marine_Uncle]

So zero and slow joe are getting a bit nervous. And Nancy is starting to curl up into a fetal position. Perhaps Harry is already rolled up in a ball somewhere.
The American people are awakening on at least some issues, that directly effect their pocket books, err and wallets.
And a big bravo to Senator Coburn.

[UAConservative]

Poor thing. I watched her reading for a while just now and her brain appears to be shutting down.

As she continued reading she had to be thinking, "What the heck is this piece of crap?" No one can possibly understand this junk!

[UAConservative]

Poor thing. I watched her reading for a while just now and her brain appears to be shutting down.

As she continued reading she had to be thinking, "What the heck is this piece of crap?" No one can possibly understand this junk!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And I couldn’t believe they let Sanders reveal the true plan for America...and no need for Insurance Companies...he actually said that.

[spokeshave]

"Sure hope Tom forces reading of the whole 2800 page mess."

Yeah...and lets hope the dims get cranky and withdraw it....!

[Tzimisce]

Read the bill???????

Well that might be how it works out there out there with those idiots in fly over country, but that’s not how things are done in Washington.

We’re far too busy to do things like read legislation.

[Marine_Uncle]

It makes one wonder if these clowns sometimes are terrified in what they are a part of.

Catch me private email to you on a global warming EPA issue.