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Coburn Backs Off Bill Reading
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is backing off his threat to require that the Senate read the 2,074-page health care bill because some GOP colleagues aren't supporting the effort.
The Oklahoma lawmaker said there's uncertainty about whether reading the bill during Thanksgiving week would be productive. He also said that if the Republicans do decide to tie up the Senate for the dozens of hours it would take, six GOP colleagues have committed to pitching in on reading duty.
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GRuss
If our elected Representatives are above reading the bills they vote on, they are accepting their pay under false pretences and do not deserve to represent us. Take notes for future elections, I'm sure we can find candidates that will take their jobs seriously! The GOP and the DEMS need to find out we are watching and if they won't give us good candidates, we will find our own!
biker
Considering we are not sure what is going to be in the final bill..I guess I can see his point. What the politicians don't realize is the American people are reading the many bills out there and we don't like any of them! I am tired of everyone saying the republicans aren't presenting anything...they are..the dems are not even giving them a chance to talk. Self serving arrogance will get you no where.
ImJustSayin
Call, e-mail Senators ...demand reading of the bill.
People in OK especially and let your disappointment be known.
Stand up for America!
Edwardsthegreat
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Special Forces (Ret)
Why make threats that you have no ability to carry out. It only makes you (appear) weak. Ben Nelson threatens to fillibuster: Same thing. All bluster, no substance! Guys! they're laughing at you !!!
Lourdes
The stimulus money has been STOLEN. The reason there are so many mistakes on RECOVERY.ORG is because it is a fictional coverup of the billions of $$ the Obama administration has secretly given to ACORN, SEIU, and individuals for their past and future support and votes. Contact your senators and representatives and tell them to demand an INDEPENDENT accounting of all the stimulus monies. Until we have one, we can assume the OBAMA administration has STOLEN the money.
Henri
My guess is that he simply didn't have time. He has to go and drop a satchel full of cash off to the family of Sen. Ensign's mistress. Bribes come before principle.
C.Rangel the THEIF
WHY SHOULD HE HELL REID HASN'T !!!!!!
VOTE ANYONE THAT WANTS THE BILL OUT OF OFFICE.
HAVE SOME PRIDE TAKE YOUR COUNTRY BACK !!!!!!!!!!!
LAWoman
Lazy mofa
red dot in a blue state
Another paper tiger.
steve.c.
Of course this has been the problem all along with republicans, they come up with good ideas, then they back down.
B.O.H.I.C.A.
Wonder what they really offered him - how much this gonna cost us - Ummm Ummm Ummm
soonan TX
Reading what you are voting on should be a very important given. I can't believe our congressmen are refusing to read the bill. Maybe some will???? How in the world can you effectively debate if you don't know the particulars they are debating. They should not only be reading but making a list of exact talking points. Both sides of the aisle are letting us down on this issue. Most of us already know the whole thing is a big mistake but they should still be reading it.
Church of John Coltrane
How can you know it's a mistake unless you have read it yourself? Why would you waste time debating something you have already vowed to vote against? Why would anyone waste their breath debating you?
soonan TX
I would need a lawyer to understand this bill. I admit that. What I do know is that we can't afford this. What is do know is that it has failed with its other plans, won't fix them, and they want to start another failure. What I strongly suspect is that the money people will be paying in for 2 or 3 years before they can use it will be spent instead of put in a trust fund they will not be allowed to raid. What I do know is that we have too much govenment control over us now and I don't want any more. I know I want my senators to be very much up on what is in the bill and reporting it. That is why they need to read it and with a lawyer if they don't understand it either. People need to use common sense and be wary of handouts. They could be poison.
Bostinks
Sen. Coburn ....WOW U start something in my opinion as a very worthwhile effort and all of the sudden you and your fellow republics feel that it will be an incovienence to read the bill on the floor. your a coward to your party. Concider this ... i am unemployed and a good reader hire me for the job. Not only will i read the bill I will read all the references scattered throughout the bill.
invested
I agree that legislators must read the bills!
When our legislators don't read and research the bills they pass into law, we often end up with gross violations of our rights or serious waste. And we end up with economic bubbles which burst and put us into serious recessions.
Witness violations of rights: Patriot Act
Gross waste: Bush Bailout, Stimulus package
Economic Bubble: Revising the Community Reinvestment Act, repealing of the Glass-Steagall Act, lowering lending requirements for financial instutions.
Legislators should read, understand and research the actual bill they are to pass, not some watered down interpretation to what the bill says.
We elect and pay them to do a good job, not pass the buck to someone unseen person we didn't elect. Sometimes it's what's not in the bill that causes the most harm. You can't know about these without personally reading the actual bill, and dotting the I's and crossing the T's.
Legislators should be proud enough of their work that they aren't afraid to post their legislation on the Internet before the vote.
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Major_Skidmark ««Audio: Reagan on UHC
Someone better get some huevos and STOP this bill. I don't know what they gave him to sell out. If this bill passes it will put an end to the USA.
HKMoritz
Hmmmm, is Reid offering the same "sweetheart deal" he gave Landrieu of Louisiana??
Deez Betray
You are in a battle for our country, you six Republicans. Rally your moral duty and read the bill over Thanksgiving week. Keept this travesty from passing. We have sons and daughters in Afghanistan that the president is letting sit isolated over there with inadequate support. You can read the rationing, socialist economy destroying bill. DO YOUR JOB.
Cav vet
Isn't it part of their job? I guess they should get a pay cut, or perhaps laid off. I'd be happy to go to Washington and read it for them.
USMC Wolf
"backing off his threat to require that the Senate read the 2,074-page health care bill because some GOP colleagues aren't supporting the effort."
F'n worthless bastards refusing to do their job. Instead they'll throw in the towel, let this pass, and say goodbye to what was left of the economy. Hello socialism. Time for a revolution.
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Church of John Coltrane
Or maybe you could look at it another way - don't vote against it OR for it unless you have read it. That's their job. I want EVERYONE who is going to vote to read EVERY word. Semper fi.
Gunnersmate
We don't want to mess up thier holiday vacation do we now tell it to the troops why they still have to fight during congresses holiday vacation
PisttOph
I guess if they don't resd the Bill they call use "plausable deniability".
PisttOph
That should have been ..can use plausible deniability.
gold2512
unfortunately,most of congress hasn't read it either-but they signed off on it-
sort of like all the the sub-prime mortgage lenders-don't worry about the
small print, the [balloon] loan really doesn't come due for a few years-
tarp
WHY NOT, THE AMERICAN NEED TO KNOW HOW BADLY WE ARE GETTING SCAMMED BY REID&DODD.