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Title: Coburn Vows to Read Health Care Bill on Senate Floor
Post by: BlueStateSaint on November 17, 2009, 07:55:22 AM: Someone in the Senate GOP has a set of balls.

Coburn Vows to Read Health Care Bill on Senate Floor

By Emily Pierce
Roll Call Staff
Nov. 16, 2009, 6:53 p.m.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) confirmed Senate Democratic leadersâ€™ fears that he will insist that the massive health care reform bill be read aloud on the Senate floor.

â€œThe American people are going to get to hear this bill read, period,â€ Coburn told reporters Monday night.

The bill is expected to be hundreds of pages long and possibly more than 1,000 pages. It would take the Senate clerk several days to read the entire thing.

One senior Senate Democratic aide said Republicans will be expected to man the floor the entire time if they want the bill read aloud.

Otherwise, Reid might ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading. Such requests are routinely granted in the Senate, but opponents have occasionally objected to either slow down progress on the bill or to highlight other objections.

The interesting thing is actually in the RedState post that led to this link.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/40650-1.html?ET=rollcall:e5942:80071205a:&st=email

RedState link:

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/11/16/coburn-demands-reid-read-the-bill/#comments
Title: Re: Coburn Vows to Read Health Care Bill on Senate Floor
Post by: thundley4 on November 17, 2009, 08:23:34 AM: I wonder if the Dimrats will try and get some speed reader to read the bill. If so,I hope that people will see that as the sham it is.
Title: Re: Coburn Vows to Read Health Care Bill on Senate Floor
Post by: littlelamb on November 17, 2009, 11:27:47 AM: Will they be telling that on the main stream media I doubt it
Title: Re: Coburn Vows to Read Health Care Bill on Senate Floor
Post by: Karin on November 17, 2009, 12:13:08 PM: Remember when Henry Waxman brought out a speed-reader, then smirked? There were howls nationwide.
Title: Re: Coburn Vows to Read Health Care Bill on Senate Floor
Post by: Baruch Menachem on November 17, 2009, 05:00:12 PM: The heat from home must be terrific on these folks. I think the reason Reid hasn't put up a bill is his fear of what would happen to the fax machines when folks read it. And the phone lines.
Title: Re: Coburn Vows to Read Health Care Bill on Senate Floor
Post by: Peter3_1 on November 17, 2009, 05:04:40 PM: The bill should damned well be read, as that's the only time the Sen's will hear/read about it. The lot are useless and need to be fired.
Title: Re: Coburn Vows to Read Health Care Bill on Senate Floor
Post by: DixieBelle on November 17, 2009, 06:06:36 PM: Read it!!! Read the whole nasty thing. I think they should be allowed to take over the three TV networks and broadcast it live until it's read completely. Can you imagine the howling and outrage if people couldn't watch their TV shows? :-)
Title: Re: Coburn Vows to Read Health Care Bill on Senate Floor
Post by: rich_t on November 17, 2009, 06:09:27 PM: Quote
Coburn Vows to Read Health Care Bill on Senate Floor

I'll believe it when I see it.

I hope to hell he does.
Title: Re: Coburn Vows to Read Health Care Bill on Senate Floor
Post by: Hawkgirl on November 17, 2009, 08:00:34 PM: Quote from: rich_t on November 17, 2009, 06:09:27 PM
I'll believe it when I see it.

I hope to hell he does.

:yeahthat: Saying he'll do it and doing it are two different things. I hope he does!