I'm hearing the GOP may force a reading of the bill before voting.

Its estimated to take 10 hours.

Too much shit in a supposed covid relief bill.

This post was edited by krackprophet on Mar 4 2021 01:47am

a novel concept indeed and yes, the bill should be maybe 25-30 pages and take 10 mins to read

Yeah. And should have been over and done with on... January 21st.

We both know that first day is not reasonable even if we had 100% support for every provision.

I mean, I know that, but you have less than a high school knowledge of how government works so I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't know that.

but yes, it should have been finished already.

Isn't this very hypocritical of them?

most members of our legislative branch tend to avoid reading the bills they pass regardless of political party affiliation

“We have to pass the bill so we know what’s in it”

I'm not sure how, but it probably is lol

Maybe. Apparently, it took a while for the Senate to even get the power sharing agreement in place (Feb 3). Biden "wasted" some time trying to negotiate with Republicans but I think it was a good faith effort on both sides. The reality is that they were too far apart and that's okay. At this point, the ball is in the GOP's court since it is now out of committee and certain Senators seem hellbent on making the process as painful as possible. I'd also blame the Dems for dicking around with minimum wage because that really isn't COVID related. Progressives need to learn to fight another day.

TARP took a while to negotiate but once it was voted on, it made it through extremely quickly. IMO, the COVID relief bill is significantly less urgent than TARP.

agreed, only because a good COVID relief bill was urgently needed 11 months ago. we got a crap one then and getting a shittier one now