Thursday, February 19, 2009

John Boehner on House Democrat's passing of 1,100 page trillion dollar spending bill



House Republican Leader (and Catholic) John Boehner (R-OH) gives a powerful speech on the House floor, shortly before House Democrats push through a 1,100 page trillion-dollor spending bill with less than 24 hours of public review time:
here I have, 1,100 pages, not one member of this body has read. Not one. There may be a staffer in the appropriations committee that read all of this last night. I don’t know how you can read 1,100 pages between midnight and now. Not one member’s read this. What happened to the promise that we’re going to let the American people see what’s in this bill 48 hours? No - we don’t have time to do that. We owe it to the American people to get this bill right. We owe to American families, we owe it to small businesses and we owe it to ourselves to get this right so we can, in fact, help our economy.


Here's the transcript.

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