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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo one, I repeat no one has read the bill !!!!!!!!!!!
700+ pages were added today.
Hand written pages by lobbyists were added today.
They will be voting soon.
McConnell and Hatch are all smiles.
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No one, I repeat no one has read the bill !!!!!!!!!!! (Original Post)
SamKnause
Dec 2017
OP
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(52,243 posts)1. can't a democrat ask the parliamentarian to read the entire text out loud?
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)2. I don't know the rules.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)3. Yea this is pretty crazy
I don't think anyone knows what is in this bill at this point.
no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)4. I'm watching my senator, Cory Booker, read it out loud on Facebook.
Last edited Fri Dec 1, 2017, 10:43 PM - Edit history (1)
What a load of garbage this bill is. I would have no idea how a judge would be able to understand it, let alone interpret it.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)5. Some parts are easy to predict
But who wrote in the section that sells Alaska back to Russia for a "handful of magic beens (sic)".
I didn't see that coming.
spanone
(135,844 posts)6. this is government of the absurd.
Luciferous
(6,081 posts)7. Well of course they won't read it- they trust their corporate overlords to
ensure that they are all taken care of, so fuck everyone else.