Do congressmen read ANYTHING before voting/commenting?
Posted June 18th, 2009 at 8:22 AM by Jon HamWe all know how the disastrous stimulus and bailout legislation was passed without any member of Congress having time to read its voluminous verbage. We also know that Henry Waxman (D-CA), Energy & Commerce Chairman and author of the National Energy Tax, didn’t know what was in his own bill when asked about it recently. Now we learn that Barney Frank puts his mouth in gear before reading the Defense of Marriage Act:
Frank claims that he gave a newspaper reporter his negative opinion of the brief without actually having read it.
Did you catch that? Barney Frank, our senior gay elected representative, and a lawyer himself, claims that he was giving legal opinions on a legal brief that he hadn’t even read. At least Joe and I, who are also lawyers, read the brief before commenting on it. How many other issues has Barney opined on about which he’s been knowingly willfully ignorant?
I can answer that last question: Lots.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I saw some footage yesterday of the hearings that are going on relating to the health care “crisis”. Some of these Congressmen were sitting there with foot-high stacks of 8.5″ by 11″ paper, maybe 3000 or 4000 pages per stack, sitting on their tables, and I had to wonder: Have any of them read through the entirety of any of these bills? Just a routine bill about, for example, food inspections can run to well over 100 pages of densely-worded mumbo jumbo.
Having some of these people lecture us about the importance of these laws is like having someone represent themselves as a Bible authority just because they know (1) there is a Bible and (2) “Jesus wept.”
June 26th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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