May 22nd, 2008 at 4:18 am
Note to Congress: Your bill is too flipping big when 34 pages goes missing and nobody on Capitol Hill catches it until the President has already vetoed it.
The AP reports that the Farm Bill was missing 34 pages, making the bill that the President signed different than the one Congress passed.
In order to avoid a partisan dustup, House Democrats hoped to pass the entire bill, again, on Thursday under expedited rules usually reserved for noncontroversial legislation, and the Senate was expected to follow suit. The correct version would then be sent to Bush under a new bill number for another expected veto.Lawmakers also will have to pass an extension of current farm law, which expires Friday.
Take your time. Go home for Memorial Day, and if you’re one of those 100 Republicans at the trough, try to convince your taxpaying constituents how price supports in an artificially inflated economy and the lack of means testing make sense. Wouldn’t that be nice if they flipped the other way after getting a dose of common sense?
