Rand Paul Tears Dem Senators A New One

Rand Paul Tears Dem Senators A New One: Senator Rand Paul gave a scathing rebuke of Senators on Friday voting on bills that they have yet to read. As evidence of what he was saying, he held up a what looked like an entire ream of paper and declared, “For goodness sakes, a six hundred page bill and I got it this morning. Not one member of the Senate will read this bill before we vote on it.”

Just how sure was Paul that no one would read the bill he waved in the air? “We’re going to vote on it in the next thirty minutes,” he declared. He then said that the Senate’s own rules say that bills have to be posted online for at least 48 hours before being voted on and that he and others will object to the vote.

“Six hundred pages. No one will read it,” Paul said. For that matter, even with the Senate rules of 48 hours, who is going to read 600 pages? Senator Paul exclaimed, “No wonder our approval rating is ten percent. Nobody knows what we are voting on. In fact, things have been stuck in this bill last night that have nothing to do with these bills and they’ve been stuck in and we’re just now discovering it.”

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