Thread: GOP will paralyze Senate floor with reading of 1,924-page sp

I hope they continue this paralyzation, for months on end......this clearly shows the voters votes meant nothing to most of these goons that supposedly work for us...Now you want to talk about traitors, these people want to go down in flames. If this get in they all need to be drawn and quartered !!!!!




GOP will paralyze Senate floor with reading of 1,924-page spending bill
By Alexander Bolton - 12/16/10 11:41 AM ET

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.

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,â€

So far today they have been talking about the START Treaty with Russia

I called Sen. DeMint's office to thank him for doing this.

Slow them stampeding horses down ....

Originally Posted by vmonkey56

Slow them stampeding horses down ....

That is what needs to happen as in the past they do not even read the Bills and passs them and then they find out it costs more then expected and it is a failed piece of legislation

LIKE NAFTA!

[quote]“If you have new senators coming in, you can hear the cries right now: ‘We haven’t had time to do this, we don’t know the treaty backwards and forwards, we have to take hearings, we have to have more briefings,’â€

[quote="Judy"][quote]“If you have new senators coming in, you can hear the cries right now: ‘We haven’t had time to do this, we don’t know the treaty backwards and forwards, we have to take hearings, we have to have more briefings,’â€

Just checking C-Span I don't see this reading happening. They are giving speeches. Do whatever it takes!!

Originally Posted by Captainron

Just checking C-Span I don't see this reading happening. They are giving speeches. Do whatever it takes!!

It is on c-span 2


http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/


Kathyet

I hope they make them read every word including the punctuation. Also an explanation of every referenced law or rule that is being changed by the bill.