{"id":43073,"date":"2020-12-22T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=43073"},"modified":"2020-12-22T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T23:48:09","slug":"can-you-believe-these-clucks-didnt-even-read-the-5593-page-stimulus-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=43073","title":{"rendered":"Can you believe these Congressional clucks didn&#8217;t even read the 5593 page Stimulus Bill?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>House Passes 5593 Page Stimulus Bill Without Anyone Having Read It<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleFull_body__3kFg9 NodeBody_container__2N7hs\">\n<p>In the immortal words of Nancy Pelosi: &#8220;we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what&#8217;s in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/therightscoop.com\/mike-lee-congress-to-vote-on-behemoth-5600-page-bill-tonight-that-none-of-them-will-have-a-chance-to-read\/\">as Utah Senator Mike Lee\u00a0<\/a>so rambunctiously pointed out tonight,<strong>\u00a0the bill is so huge that Lee said it will take three hours just to print out.<\/strong>\u00a0And they\u2019ll still have to vote on the bill tonight. It\u2019s unreal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1341132976894177280&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fhere-full-text-covid-stimulus-bill-all-5593-pages-it&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1341132976894177280\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Lee noted that\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;this is by far the longest bill I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and added that members won\u2019t be allowed to amend the bill in any way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Here\u2019s the really sad thing:\u00a0 we\u2019re being told that there will be no opportunity to amend or improve it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a result, nearly every member of Congress &#8211; House and Senate, Democrat or Republican &#8211; will have been excluded from the process of developing this bill, which will cost American taxpayers trillions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This process, by which members of Congress are asked to defer blindly to legislation negotiated entirely in secret by four of their colleagues, must come to an end.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t come to an end until no longer works for those empowered by it.\u00a0 That can happen, but only when most members of both houses and both political parties stop voting for bills they haven\u2019t read\u2014and, by design, cannot read until after it\u2019s too late.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so it came to pass that the House passed the bill&#8230; without a single member possibly being capable of reading it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>*HOUSE HAS VOTES TO PASS COVID RELIEF-FUNDING BILL; VOTE ONGOING<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And in case you wondered just what is in it, we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/pork-city-here-are-most-ridiculous-pet-projects-900-billion-spending-package\">summarized the most egregious pork here<\/a>&#8230; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/economics\/heres-breakdown-everything-inside-900bn-stimulus-bill-and-what-it-means-us-economy\">what needy Americans will care about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Earlier:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There was some confusion on Monday afternoon when the release of the full text of the stimulus bill was prevented due to a computer glitch, because the file was &#8211; no joke &#8211;\u00a0<strong><em>corrupt.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1341078170754310144&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fhere-full-text-covid-stimulus-bill-all-5593-pages-it&amp;partner=tweetdeck&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1341078170754310144\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>But that was promptly resolved (we can only hope the hacked password wasn&#8217;t Pork123), and moments ago Congress released the full text of the bill&#8230;\u00a0<strong>all 5593 pages of it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the bill is chock-full of garbage:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" data-twitter-extracted-i1608664630891727106=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">This bill is beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Example: It literally legislates the process for the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n<p>See pg 5099 of the PDF.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisaDNews\/status\/1341098208538333185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good luck to anyone tasked with reading this porkulus monster from cover to cover.<\/p>\n<p><em>Full text below (<a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.rules.house.gov\/files\/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf\">pdf link here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_94485\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/488851870\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-NYiRq12sPH6vqVIpvcFy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/here-full-text-covid-stimulus-bill-all-5593-pages-it\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/here-full-text-covid-stimulus-bill-all-5593-pages-it<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleFull_body__3kFg9 NodeBody_container__2N7hs\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Passes 5593 Page Stimulus Bill Without Anyone Having Read It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}