{"id":21320,"date":"2014-01-17T09:07:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=21320"},"modified":"2014-01-17T09:07:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:07:31","slug":"congress-passes-1-1-trillion-spending-bill-one-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/congress-passes-1-1-trillion-spending-bill-one-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Passes $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill That NO ONE Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8pZ8-9BVog?rel=0\" height=\"203\" width=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Once again the most incompetent Congress in our lifetime demonstrates their lack of responsibility and how reckless they are with other people&#8217;s money. Republicans have turned their back on the American people with this bill by not even putting up a fight and going along with what the establishment wants ever since the govt shutdown. Here&#8217;s a question if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/barbara-boland\/who-read-1582-page-11t-spending-bill-congressman-nobody-did\">no one read<\/a> this bill, like obamacare, WHO WROTE THE BILL??<br \/>\n&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Read 1,582-Page $1.1T Spending Bill? Congressman: &#8216;Nobody Did&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/barbara-boland\/who-read-1582-page-11t-spending-bill-congressman-nobody-did\">by Barbara Boland | CNS<\/a><br \/>\nWhen asked whether he read the 1,528-page, $1.1 trillion government spending bill before he voted for it yesterday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nobody did!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>On Capitol Hill on Thursday, CNSNews.com asked Blumenauer: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The omnibus bill yesterday, it was 1,582 pages, did you have a chance to read all the pages before voting on it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Blumenauer laughed and said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nobody did!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nobody did?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the CNSNews.com reporter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nope,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Blumenauer.<\/p>\n<p>In an e-mail to CNSNews.com, Blumenauer&#8217;s communications director, Patrick Malone, said: &#8220;A reminder that the Republicans complained and complained about not having time to read bills when the Dems were in charge and then keep dropping bombs like this on us.&#8221;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/barbara-boland\/who-read-1582-page-11t-spending-bill-congressman-nobody-did\">..more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the most incompetent Congress in our lifetime demonstrates their lack of responsibility and how reckless they are with other people&#8217;s money. Republicans have turned their back on the American people with this bill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13],"tags":[35805,4385,449,26837,3909],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}