By all appearances, the House is about to vote on a very long bill of which it has no completed official copy.
Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Louie Gohmert have just asked the chair whether there exists a complete, updated copy of the Waxman-Markey carbon-cap bill.
"If a bill for which there is no copy were to actually pass this body," Barton asked, "could the bill without a copy be sent to the Senate for its consideration?"
Sunday, June 28, 2009
No official copy and unread
Apparently the cap and tax bill the House just passed had no official copy, nor have the 300 pages of amendment been added to the main body of the bill. Which means, of course, that no one actually READ the bill they passed, as it is written with all the add this paragraph, drop that paragraphs. Which means, of course, that anything could be in it. But we knew that already, didn't we. Read the Washington Examiner:
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