Dick Durbin: Speed Reader
More Absurdity on the Omnibus
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Is 46 hours and 8 minutes enough time to read a 3,417-page bill? Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) thinks it is.
Last night before the Senate voted on the legislation, Durbin criticized Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) for suggesting lawmakers weren't given enough time to consider the mammoth omnibus spending bill.
For this Senator to suggest on the floor that we are sneaking this bill in, that people have not had a chance to see it, I would just say to the Senator from South Carolina: Welcome to the world of the Internet. This bill has been posted since 12:15 a.m. Monday morning on the Internet for your perusal. That is early to get up, I understand. It is an early time to be reading the bill. But, please, do not come to the floor and suggest that this is a mystery bill which no one has seen. For 2 days, this has been posted on the Internet. You have had your chance. Every Senator has had a chance.
DeMint's office wondered if that feat was even possible. It is -- assuming you read nearly 1ΒΌ pages of the bill every minute for 46 hours and 8 minutes, take no bathroom breaks and don't eat or sleep.
Here's the exchange caught on video:
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Two thirds of the world is covered by water,
the other third is covered by Champ Bailey.
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
On the kind of printers they are using it probably takes about 30 minutes. And most of a case of paper.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman
but I've seen enough summary on RS to know it's a turd wrapped in a bottle rocket. The Ds are sneaking more through there than we should allow.
I wish President Bush would veto it.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
I'm not supposed to advocate violence. It probably wouldn't be right if I admit I'd like a shot at Durbin with a big stick upside his face.
Jeremiah 17:9.
It was the same deal when the Republicans ran Congress. Thousand-page bills pushed onto the floor by leadership and voted on by Senators and Representatives who'd never even read them.
The best part is the transcript...Senator DeMint asks the turd from Illinois...I mean Troops are Nazis... I mean Senator Durbin if he'd read the bill, and of course the response was not even silence, but an attempt to shut DeMint up.
There is nothing regular about the Democratic Party controlled Senate.