rssHow Do You Even File 540 Amendments to a Bill?
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 4:25 pm
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Today’s moment of sheer Jamesian confusion comes from Rep. Steny Hoyer’s (D-Md.) disclosure today that Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is larding the Defense Department appropriations bill with God-knows-what. From a press briefing Hoyer gave earlier:
Mr. Hoyer: …On Thursday we’ll do the Department of Defense Appropriation Act. There are, by the way, over 600 amendments filed to that bill. The rule hasn’t been written yet. The rule is not through yet, is it? No. They’re working on the rule now. We will try to deal with perhaps a large number of those en bloc amendment of some type. There are 540 filed by Flake alone.
Q: 540?
Mr. Hoyer: 540 by Mr. Flake.
I didn’t know a single human being could file that many amendments.
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Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 8:29 pm
They're almost all amendments to delete funds / attack earmarks. So not exactly “larding up.”
Comment posted July 28, 2009 @ 8:56 pm
Jeff Flake was on C-spans Washington Journal this morning and explained how he decided to file that many amendments. There are 540 No-Bid Contracts in the Bill and in classic Flake form Congressman Flake thinks the Congress rants out its mouth on one side about no-bid contracts and then continues to slip them in when they think they can get away with it.
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