GOP Senator Forces All 628 Pages of $1.9 Trillion COVID Relief Bill to Be Read Aloud

[Sybil Ludington]

For decades, the GOP has portrayed itself as the party of fiscal responsibility, but when push comes to shove, it has not acted all that fiscally responsible.


Time after time, Republicans have talked a big game about halting massive expansions of government spending, only to roll over and let them happen whenever sticking to their word would require actual guts.


Thankfully, one GOP Senator is legitimately standing up for the American taxpayer and fighting against the Democrats’ monstrous 628-page, $1.9 trillion COVID “relief” bill.


Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson told WISN-AM that he intended to “make them read their 600-700 page bill” aloud so that “every member of the Senate has time to read” the legislation and to “highlight that this is not relief and that it’s a Democratic boondoggle,” according to National Review.


Fox News estimated the reading would take about 10 hours, and would then be followed by 20 hours of debate on the bill itself before what is known as a “vote-a-rama,” in which legislators vote on a myriad of changes and amendments.

In essence, Democrats will be in for a rough, unrelenting weekend if they want their “relief” bill to pass.


On Thursday, Johnson made good on his pledge:


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https://www.westernjournal.com/gop-s...ent=2021-03-06

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[goodpen]

Yes, and the Rep need to continue to do everything they can to take out a large part of this Bill. Like putting 139 ..Billion..in it for elementary and secondary schools, when the CBO says Congress already provided 113 ...Billion..."most of those funds remain to be spent". AND CBO expects 96% of this 139 Billion will not be spent until 2022 to 2028.

[Calypso Jones]

The ‘COVID Relief Bill’ Is Mostly an Expensive Bundle of Politically Motivated Giveaways – Reason.com

VERY little is going to any covid relief for people who have suffered through this Scamdemic in this country.

It's big democrat money party for their special interests.

[Calypso Jones]

And where are our Biden Supporters on this boondoggle??

[Calypso Jones]

The more things change the more they stay the same.

The stimulus boondoggle (americanthinker.com) from 2009

[Tahuyaman]

And where are our Biden Supporters on this boondoggle??

Actually liberals cry foul. They say that this is an obstructionist move and should be stopped immediately.

They always claim that they want transparency in government, but their actions never back that up.

[carolina73]

This bill has little to do with COVID and more to do with long term funding of Democrat supporters.

I have to think that Pelosi and Democrats do not expect to get away with their nonsense for very long, so they are setting themselves up for up to 7 years of payoffs with this bill. Why would they be allocating spending for up to 2028 in a relief bill?