The U.S. Constitution, including Amendments, was written on 4 pages of parchment paper.
The Glass Steagall Act, which kept the Wall Street banks from destroying our economic system until it was repealed in 1999, was 37 pages long.
Why would a Federal Highway Bill possibly require 1,030 pages, unless it is a bloated, bribe filled, corrupt, taxpayer screwing, $350 billion legislative abortion?
These bills are written by corporate lobbyists, unread by your Congress critters, and passed with absolutely no transparency or vetting with the citizens.
Keep voting. I’m sure that will change things.
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee · Jul 21
Just finished printing the highway bill. Received at 3:06 pm. 1,030 pages long. 1st vote on it at 4:00 pm.
War & Peace is 1,225 pages.
Evelyn Wood for congress!!
The Obamacare bill is 2,409 pages
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“Just finished printing the highway bill. Received at 3:06 pm. 1,030 pages long. 1st vote on it at 4:00 pm.”
It’s nice that he’s telling people how it works, but there is not even a pretense of democracy with that sort of approach. A fast laser printer wouldn’t be done printing that until around 3:40pm or later. Requiring the Senator to read and analyze about 52 pages per minute.
Lee received copy of the Bill at3:09 – first vote at 4:00.
Let’s pass this Bill so we can find out what is in it.
I am hopelessly behind in my mental updating of Statutory Law, I have utterly given up on Regulatory Law. I understand ignorance is not an affirmative defense, so I am resigned to guilt and criminality, by default. It’s kinda funny, in an Orwelian sense, because those that sign or ‘create’ the laws do not read them either.
Vote No, at least on the first round until you can confirm your own pork is in it. .
Corpocracy is the law of the land.
This is nothing more than a rubber stamp congress. The Constitution has been so twisted and perverted that it has been rendered meaningless / useless.
It is a sham of a representative government. This is why it doesn’t matter who you vote for.
thats all well and good for him to point that out, but don’t be fooled by him or any of the other ‘small govt conservatives’ as they like to call themselves, he has voted in favor of plenty of monstrosities like this one, and is very much part of the problem
@Gator,
You could give him a year, and that asshole couldn’t read it.
Automatic *NO* anytime this shit is pulled. 1,000+ pages is unacceptable.
How ’bout a bill to limit the # of pages on every subsequent bill to ten pages? That’ll take the wind out of the bag!
As an External Examiner, when doing a Ph.D. Viva I tend to average about 25 pages per hour, so an average length Thesis (120 pages) is about 5 hours, assuming there’s no need for major corrections / amendments. (Most Universities now have a maximum length, with a very few exceptions, such as Engineering and Medicine).
So, for 1030 pages this is 41 hours “reading with comprehension of what I’m reading”, and we’re told the first “vote” is in ONE HOUR???
Wonder if Congress do an “Executive Summary” (with all the controversial bits nicely ignored, of course!), in which case, there is your reason for all that very bad legislation – passed after reading the “edited highlights” only.
@Phil,
UhUh, don’t give them that excuse. It’s THEIR house. If they create bills (that’s what they do, right?), then they can allot enough time to read them.
OR make them shorter.
And if the Dems won’t allow that, then filibuster by reading the damn thing into the record. Slowly.
So, what I want to know is how did Sen. Mike Lee vote for this bill?
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Looks like this includes the revocation of Passports for those the IRS says owe too much in taxes (See section 52102). It also reauthorizes the Ex-Im Bank (See Division I).
Mike Lee did vote against it by the way. (Here are the roll call vote results:link text)
“How ’bout a bill to limit the # of pages on every subsequent bill to ten pages?”
It’s been tried before, and it produces incomprehensible goop to cram 100 pages of content into 10 pages.
The better question is why on God’s green earth anyone would need a law with 100 pages of content.
There is no fixing a systemically dysfunctional system within itself. You have to go outside of it.
It WAS 1030 pages BEFORE the pork got stapled to it.