Mike Lee said Congress will vote on an Omnibus spending bill (which includes COVID assistance) tonight that they’ve just received, which is a massive 5,593 pages long and none of them, of course, have read it:
1/4 This is the spending bill under consideration in Congress today. I received it just moments ago, and will likely be asked to vote on it late tonight. It’s 5,593 pages long. I know there are some good things in it. I’m equally confident that there are bad things in it. pic.twitter.com/SoWXnEWYfV
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) December 21, 2020
The bill is so huge that Lee said it will take THREE HOURS just to print out. And they’ll still have to vote on the bill tonight. It’s unreal.
Lee says members won’t be allowed to amend the bill in any way:
2/4 Here’s the really sad thing: we’re being told that there will be no opportunity to amend or improve it. As a result, nearly every member of Congress — House and Senate, Democrat or Republican — will have been excluded from the process of developing this bill,
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) December 21, 2020
3/4 which will cost American taxpayers trillions of dollars. This process, by which members of Congress are asked to defer blindly to legislation negotiated entirely in secret by four of their colleagues, must come to an end.
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) December 21, 2020
4/4 It won’t come to an end until no longer works for those empowered by it. That can happen, but only when most members of both houses and both political parties stop voting for bills they haven’t read—and, by design, cannot read until after it’s too late.
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) December 21, 2020
He’s right. It would take enough members to vote NO on the bill until they’ve had the chance to read it. Honestly, now would be the time to do it since the election is over and the next one is at least two years away. But you know it won’t happen.