Congressmen Had 1,000 Minutes to Read 2,232-Page $1.3T Bill
By Terence P. Jeffrey | March 22, 2018 | 5:00 PM EDT

Members of the House of Representatives had 1,000 minutes—overnight—to read a 2,232-page bill that spends $1.3 trillion.

On Wednesday, March 21, the House Appropriations Committee put out a press release headlined “Government-Wide Funding Legislation Released.”

“The bill contains the full legislation and funding for all of the 12 annual Appropriations bills,” said the release. “It totals $1.3 trillion, including $78.1 billion in funding for the Global War on Terror (GWOT)/Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO). Total base funding, excluding OCO and emergencies, is $1.2 trillion.”

At the bottom of the press release, the committee included a link to the House documents page where “the text of the legislation” was available.

This page shows that the text of the bill—H.R. 1625—was “Added 03/21/2018 at 07:57 PM.”

The PDF of the 2,232-page text of the $1.3-trillion spending bill was added to the House documents page at 7:57 p.m. on Wednesday night:
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The PDF of the full text of the bill that is posted there is 2,232 pages long.

The final roll-call vote on H.R. 1625--as memorialized on C-SPAN--began at 12:37 pm and ended at about 12:59 pm on Thursday, March 22. The bill passed 256 to 167—with 90 Republicans voting against it and 111 Democrats voting for it.

The 12:37 p.m. vote in the House started 16 hours and 40 minutes--or 1,000 minutes--after the bill was posted online.

As recorded by C-SPAN the roll call vote on the 2,232-page $1.3-trillion bill began at 12:37 p.m. on Thursday:

Had a member downloaded the PDF of the bill the moment it was “added” to the House document webpage on Wednesday night and started reading it immediately, and then had the member kept reading it without a break until the moment the vote started at 12:37 pm on Thursday afternoon, the member would have needed to read about 2.32 pages per minute to get it completed.

An American citizen, of course, would also have needed to download the bill the moment it was released to have taken advantage of the full 1,000 minutes that passed before the House Republican leadership brought it up for a vote.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 18, 2009, as CNSNews.com has previously reported, then-House Minority Leader John Boehner said: “We are going to get the reform movement moving again in the United States Congress. One of my first orders of business would be to post every bill online for at least 72 hours before it comes to the floor of the House for a vote. We’ll require every committee to quickly post the bills that move out of their committee and put those bills online so you can read them.”

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It’s going to take more than “I’m not a Democrat” to win in 2018.

Do Republicans even give a damn about winning elections? It’s absurd I have to ask this question.

Right now, a Republican-controlled Congress is trying to spend trillions under the cover of darkness in the form of the latest omnibus spending bill. Remember this is the GOP—the supposed party of fiscal responsibility. Also remember, Congress’ primary constitutionally mandated responsibility is to be stewards of taxpayer dollars, a message Republicans should absolutely own.

Instead they’re putting together a spending package worthy of Barack Obama.

And what are Republicans spending all this money on? Funding sanctuary cities. Saving Obamacare. More gun control.

So why vote GOP at all? Why should any Republican be remotely surprised if the base isn’t excited about sending any of them back to Congress?

In the same moment Democrats are hoping for a “blue wave” in the midterms, Republicans are busy giving liberals exactly what they want at every turn while giving its own base nothing. At a time when Republicans should be pinning Democrats on their heels, Republicans capitulate.

Republicans have to go on offense. They have to give people a reason to vote for them. There is absolutely nothing preventing Republicans from taking the lead on key themes and issues—immigration, Obamacare, Planned Parenthood—just name the battle.

But what do they do instead? They talk only about tax cuts and the mere fact that they aren’t Democrats.

Sorry, but “I’m not Nancy Pelosi” is not going to cut it in the midterms.

This isn’t 2012. Republicans controlled all three branches coming out of 2016 and conservatives still don’t have much to show for it. 2018 can’t be about tax cuts alone. The midterms will be won or lost primarily on whose base turns out. If Republicans cannot energize their base, they will stay home and Democrats win. If Republicans give Democrats everything they want, the base stays home and Democrats win.

And Republicans will be sent home.

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https://foramerica.org/2018/03/blog/cong...-spending-bill/

"So why vote GOP at all?" Indeed why? We were already in serious trouble concerning the coming mid-term elections, and I believe this spending bill may well be the final nail in the coffin. I know I won't be supporting Republicans come November. It will be third party or not voting.

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We need a third party, or perhaps to be more accurate a second party

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