Read. The. Bill! Read. The. Bill! What? Voting on a bill that has nothing to read? - Granite Grok

Read. The. Bill! Read. The. Bill! What? Voting on a bill that has nothing to read?

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small,but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)

law-theoryThis REALLY isn’t “whether it works” at all – they’ve simply dropped all pretense .  Normally these posts are about the Executive Branch agencies and some lunkheaded action they take – either a total screwup or a classic example of power grabbing in which they have no source in statute or law to claim that power.  But for years I’ve been decrying that our Legislative Branch (that would be “Pretty” Kelly Ayotte, Jeanne “The Progressive” Shaheen, Annie “Ms. Invisible” Kuster, and Frank “It IS my money” Guinta) need to actually READ the bills in front of them – not just rely on Cliff Notes from their staffs but to read each bill FOR WHICH WE ELECT THEM TO DO.  Rubber Stamping a bill is not working / representing us.  But this is a new high in Legislative lowness (reformatted, emphasis mine):

On Tuesday night, the Senate voted to proceed to the continuing resolution, a bill that will allegedly fund the government until Dec. 9. The only problem is that there isn’t actually a bill yet.

There is no text. There is no agreement between Democrats and Republicans on what the bill will fund—Planned Parenthood, the Export-Import Bank, control of the internet—all of it remains a mystery. Yet the Senate voted 89-7 to proceed to this nonexistent bill.

Your vote and tax money (we pay these chuckleheads!) at work? Once again, they can’t even do their main purpose for being – raising and appropriating tax monies and setting national priorities for spending.  Voting by a huge majority for something that doesn’t exist???

We’re in the best of hands….yuck.  “Do your job” is a phrase that must be at dog whistle frequencies – they can’t hear it.

(H/T: Daily Signal)

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