Fwd: Priceless: GOP to Force Reading of Entire $1.1 Trillion Pork-filled Omnibus Bill

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Subject:	Priceless: GOP to Force Reading of Entire $1.1 Trillion Pork-filled Omnibus Bill
Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:44:01 -0600
From:	Travis <baconlard@gmail.com>
Reply-To:	politicalforum@googlegroups.com

Make each member of congress who has an earmark(s) read their earmarks aloud on the chamber floor and explain why they are vital to national security.

Priceless: GOP to Force Reading of Entire $1.1 Trillion Pork-filled Omnibus Bill Scotty Starnes | December 16, 2010 at 2:03 PM | Tags: $1.1 trillion Omnibus, Democrats, earmarks, Omnibus, pork barrel spending, Republicans, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-3P8

Now this is transparency. Democrats, after suffering historic losses in the November midterm elections, thought they would have their last hurrah by flipping off America and putting together a earmark-filled spending package. They wanted to ram it through before anyone could read it because tranparency is important to them. Well...

The Republicans are going to force a reading of the 1,914 page bill put together by the Democrats.

The Hillreports:

Republicans will paralyze the Senate floor for 50 hours by forcing clerks to read every single paragraph of the 1,924-page, $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill.

Senate clerks are expected to read the massive bill in rotating shifts around the clock taking breaks to drink water and pop throat lozenges to keep legislative business on track, according to a Democratic leadership aide.

The bill is so long that it took the Government Printing Office two days to print it.

I'm sure they read the bill in its entirerty.

The Senate is currently debating the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty. It is expected to take up the omnibus spending bill on a separate and parallel track later Thursday.

If Republicans follow through on their threat, legislative business couldn't resume until late Saturday in order to give the staff enough time to read the bill aloud, according to a Democratic leadership estimate.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), the Senate Republican Steering Committee chairman, vowed not to back down.

If they bring this up, they're going to read it. It'll take them a day or two to read it, DeMint said on Fox News. Again, we're trying to run out the clock. They should not be able to pass this kind of legislation in a lame-duck Congress.

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