{"id":18465,"date":"2013-04-18T20:28:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18465"},"modified":"2013-04-18T20:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:28:46","slug":"remember-the-promise-congress-made-to-read-the-bills-before-they-vote-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18465","title":{"rendered":"Remember The Promise Congress Made To Read The Bills Before They Vote On Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/blog\/craig-bannister\/immigration-bill-would-take-nearly-three-days-read-nonstop\">CNS News<\/a> posted a story yesterday about the immigration bill hearing which is scheduled for Friday. The bill was actually introduced Wednesday morning. The bill is 844 pages long. Does anyone actually believe that this bill will be read before the hearing occurs and before it is voted on? Does anyone believe that the public will have a chance to take a really good at this bill?<\/p>\n<p>The article states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>So, will anyone actually read the entire immigration bill prior to the hearing &#8211; or even before voting on it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>History says &#8220;no,&#8221; if you look at some of the previous long, important <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">bills congressmen have admitted they didn&#8217;t read<\/a> before voting on them:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Obamacare,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Stimulus,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States fiscal cliff\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_fiscal_cliff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Fiscal Cliff<\/a> Deal,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>$1.1 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>$280 Billion Continuing Resolution,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>2009 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Climate Change Act 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate_Change_Act_2008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Climate Change Bill<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here we go again.<a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=02db4a3a-f4c5-4dff-9e16-9c9a42bb4b2d\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNS News posted a story yesterday about the immigration bill hearing which is scheduled for Friday. The bill was actually introduced Wednesday morning. The bill is 844 pages long. Does anyone actually believe that this bill will be read before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18465\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5417,55,5416,2436,1334,94,3755,4206],"class_list":["post-18465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-act-2008","tag-cns-news","tag-cybercast-news-service","tag-environment","tag-friday","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18467,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18465\/revisions\/18467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}