Senate bill weighs in at 2,074 pages

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Hopefully they can use their taxpayer-funded salaries to assemble their teams of analysts to read the bill as they're supposed to instead of being, as Reinhard notes... procedurally obtrusive in an all-goes effort to simply derail passage for the sake of doing so. Hopefully the electorate remembers things such as these.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

From Senate bill weighs in at 2074 pages:

"“Read the bill!” was a rallying cry of some health reform opponents over the summer. And if Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) gets his way, senators will get a chance to hear every word of it. He’s threatening to the read the legislation from start to finish, which by some estimates could take as long as 48 hours."

I find it actually quite disturbing that it's a THREAT to read this bill aloud.

It's considered a threat because it does nothing to help the process. Unless the Senators will sit and listen to the bill being read (which we all know they will not), what's the point of having it read aloud on the floor other than to delay the debate on the measure?

VW has probably read it already.

I'm working on it

Don't be scared, it's no more voluminous than Sarah's new book but it does have a lot more substance.

State controled AP has 11 fact checkers working on Sarah's 408 page book. It would be nice if the lame stream media did their job and showed half the interest in examining legislation that would change our lives.

Edited November 21, 2009 by Sofiyya

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The greatest hits keep on rolling in.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

From Senate bill weighs in at 2074 pages:

"“Read the bill!” was a rallying cry of some health reform opponents over the summer. And if Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) gets his way, senators will get a chance to hear every word of it. He’s threatening to the read the legislation from start to finish, which by some estimates could take as long as 48 hours."

I find it actually quite disturbing that it's a THREAT to read this bill aloud.

It's considered a threat because it does nothing to help the process. Unless the Senators will sit and listen to the bill being read (which we all know they will not), what's the point of having it read aloud on the floor other than to delay the debate on the measure?

VW has probably read it already.

I'm working on it

Don't be scared, it's no more voluminous than Sarah's new book but it does have a lot more substance.

State controled AP ...

State controlled AP? How are they state controlled? Did Bush control them, too, when he ran the government? And Reagan?