Democrat Laughs at Idea House Members Would Read Health Bill Before Vote

[Mr Mannn]

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50677

“If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference.

Hoyer was responding to a question from CNSNews.com on whether he supported a pledge that asks members of the Congress to read the entire bill before voting on it and also make the full text of the bill available to the public for 72 hours before a vote.

In fact, Hoyer found the idea of the pledge humorous, laughing as he responed to the question. “I’m laughing because a) I don’t know how long this bill is going to be, but it’s going to be a very long bill,” he said.

[Lord Undies]

If a bill is too long and complicated to read, it must be discarded, or, folks, we are bigger fools than we think we are.

[thundley4]

I saw a comparison of the length of the Constitution compared to the length of the Cap-n-Tax bill.  On the one hand we have a document that set up the rules for governing an entire country in less than 30 pages or so, OTOH we have a 1300+ bill just to screw the country over.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

How can we have consent of the governed if we don't even know what it is we're supposed to be consenting to?

[NHSparky]

That's the whole point.  Congress knows it has no brillance to dazzle us with, so they baffle us with 3400 pages of bullshit.

[NateRiver]

Laughing Matter

“If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference.

[JohnnyReb]

Send the idiots back to school. Make them read it, study it, take a test on it and require a score of 85 before they're allowed to vote on it......probably have a high dropout rate but what the hell, that'd be one time a high dropout rate was good.

[seabelle]

You know it's the staffers who read these things, then tells the boss what points will get him re-elected ... or not 

[JohnnyReb]

You know it's the staffers who read these things, then tells the boss what points will get him re-elected ... or not 

....and they only read the "Cliff Notes".

[thundley4]

....and they only read the "Cliff Notes".

Right, as in how to drive the economy over a cliff.

[ironhorsedriver]

Yes, but sadly, most of them will continue to get re-elected, and feel even more empowered. I so wish the public would wake up to these dummies and boot them!

[JohnnyReb]

Right, as in how to drive the economy over a cliff.

 ....you got it.