I have to wonder why the republicans haven’t been doing this all along. If they had, they probably could have held things up until election day next year. I’d say “better late than never” but I don’t want to speak too soon.
American Spectator reported:
Sen. Tom Coburn has just demanded that the Senate clerk read the single-payer amendment offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders — and it’s 767 pages.
Typically, Senators offering amendments will ask for unanimous consent to avoid reading the entire meausure, but all it takes is one Senator to object to demand its reading, and Coburn objected to Sanders attempt to dispense with the reading of the amendment.
To give you a sense of how this could delay things, it took the Senate clerk 18 minutes to get through the first 6 pages of the amendment, which were the table of contents. At this current pace, it will take 38 hours to get through the entire amendment.
An update indicates that the reading started going a bit faster when they got past the table of contents, but it will still take at least 12 hours or so. You can watch the debate live here.
Via memeorandum
Now he’s withdrawing the Amendment in order to stop the reading.
Would someone please wake me up from this nightmare?
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bye bye traitor turd demos..sanders is socialist scum. democrats into the sewer with their fellow stinking brown things
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