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To: ConjunctionJunction

I understand debate is limited to 20 hours, but I also read there’s no limit on the number of amendments that can be offered. Here’s what I’d do: take the tax code, all 100,000 pages of it, add a paragraph to the end. Call it an amendment, object to unanimous consent and insist the entire amendment be read aloud. The reading aloud doesn’t count against the 20 hours. I’m sure there is an ample number of federal codes, statutes, standards and regulations pertaining to healthcare, taxes, insurance etc., that can be introduced as amendments. No unanimous consent, read ‘em all. The new President will be inaugurated before they finish reading all this crap.


15 posted on 03/03/2010 11:23:36 AM PST by wny
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To: wny

Damn good idea there!!


28 posted on 03/03/2010 11:51:21 AM PST by FlashBack ('0'bama: "Katrina on a Global Level")
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To: wny

Why not just introduce the Encyclopedia Britanica, as an amendment?


49 posted on 03/03/2010 1:41:09 PM PST by Lucas McCain
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To: wny
-- I also read there's no limit on the number of amendments that can be offered. --

I read that unicorns are real.

Point being that 20 hours is 20 hours (more or less), and that is the time limit regardless of the number of amendments that manage to find their way into the limited debate time.

52 posted on 03/03/2010 1:52:06 PM PST by Cboldt
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