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Top Democrat Admits: Not One Member Of House Rules Committee Actually Read Omnibus Bill
breitbart ^ | 12/10/14 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 12/10/2014 5:56:49 PM PST by Nachum

House Rules Committee ranking Democratic member Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) admitted at the opening of the House Rules Committee hearing on Speaker John Boehner’s 1,603-page omnibus spending bill that nobody had actually read the bill before the hearing.

“There’s some things I think I really have to say about this, mostly process, 1,600 pages right here” Slaughter said as she gestured toward the bill. “Released in the middle of the night. Not one member of the committee has been able to read all the way through it or anything of it, I suppose. No opportunity for public input. No hearings. No committee markups. And no time to adequately consider $1.1 trillion in spending.”

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KEYWORDS: bill; boehnerbetrayal; committee; housespendingbill; omnibus; spendingbill
Top Democrat Admits: Not One Member Of House Rules Committee Actually Read Omnibus Bill Before Hearing
1 posted on 12/10/2014 5:56:49 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Oh please!!! Democrats are going to complain about thousand page bills nobody has read or understands, after they foisted Obamacare on us??? Really???

And remember this is the same Louise Slaughter who came up with the Slaughter House rules in the Rules Committee, which helped grease the skids to get obamacare passed.

Unbelievably absurd.......


2 posted on 12/10/2014 6:01:53 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Nachum

Here we go again...


3 posted on 12/10/2014 6:06:02 PM PST by madison10
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To: Nachum

So Boehner and his henchmen have gone full circle and become just like the Obamacare Pelosians. The uniparty rules.


4 posted on 12/10/2014 6:12:05 PM PST by Truth29
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To: Nachum

I guess we have to pass the bill before we know through which orifice we were screwed.


5 posted on 12/10/2014 6:13:19 PM PST by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: Nachum
Democrats ... Republicans...

Really is there one whit of difference once these rascals reach Washington ???

A pox on them all !!!

Bsstards... worthless Bastards !!

Yes, that includes Kevin M. from Bakersfield.

6 posted on 12/10/2014 6:14:18 PM PST by ptsal (Repubicans swallowing more kool-aide from Rove & Kristol)
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To: Nachum

Denise is making the “clever” comparison to 0bamacare, implying either that we should be outraged at the passage of this bill - I am, actually, but not for the reason she’s offering - or we should shut up about 0bamacare. The latter isn’t going to happen as long it is on the books.


7 posted on 12/10/2014 6:15:04 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Nachum

Nancy Bonor is drunk on liberal koolaid.


8 posted on 12/10/2014 6:20:31 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Nachum
So, put a copy on the web and let the People read it.

Then we can advise our alleged representatives...

9 posted on 12/10/2014 6:35:17 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Nachum; All
As with Obama’s constitutionally indefensible Stimulus Package and Obamacare, it sounds like the Omnibus bill is likewise going to defeat the purpose of the “power of the purse” clause, Clause 1 of Section 7 of Article I, which James Madison had explained in Federalist #58.
”The House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose, the supplies requisite for the support of government. They, in a word, hold the purse that powerful instrument by which we behold, in the history of the British Constitution, an infant and humble representation of the people gradually enlarging the sphere of its activity and importance, and finally reducing, as far as it seems to have wished, all the overgrown prerogatives of the other branches of the government. This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure [emphasis added] …” —James Madison, The Federalist Papers : No. 58.

In other words, it seems like the RINO-controlled House is giving Obama a blank check with no accountability so that Obama can fund his constitutionally indefensible side projects with no worry that Congress will be able to defund him.

Also, regardless that the RINO-controlled House has read the Constitution out loud at the the beginnings of the 2011 and 2013 legislative sessions, I seriously doubt that corrupt Congress can justify most of the Omnibus bill under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Are we having fun yet?

What a mess! :^P

10 posted on 12/10/2014 6:40:14 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Nachum
So, John Pelosi pushed the bill through. I see! John Pelosi is going to ruin what we all just voted for!

"Why did you have to say that about me?!!!"

"Because, YOU'RE A FOOL!

Stop it!


11 posted on 12/10/2014 6:43:07 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: ptsal

Republicans and Democrats, both are shit, just different piles!!


12 posted on 12/10/2014 6:44:11 PM PST by gbs
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To: Paladin2

put a copy on the web and let the People read it.”

Reading is racist. It’s part of white privilege.


13 posted on 12/10/2014 7:05:00 PM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
This is why the 84 year old hag only won reelection by less than 200 votes in one of the most gerrymandered Dimocrat districts in the Peoples Republic of New York.
14 posted on 12/10/2014 7:40:36 PM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: Paladin2

So, put a copy on the web and let the People read it.
Then we can advise our alleged representatives...


Speaking of....here’s a blast from the past...

Boehner: Democrats Should Post Half-Trillion Dollar Omnibus Spending Bill Online Immediately

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189935/posts?page=1


15 posted on 12/10/2014 7:44:31 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

If she has a problem with it, maybe we shall just “deem” it passed.


16 posted on 12/10/2014 7:57:02 PM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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