Sen Coburn plans on calling for a reading of the entire HCR bill on the Senate Floor to slow it down

[Orlandodem]

What would be the Democratic response to this parliamentary maneuver to bring the Senate to a stop? I'm sure there is a parliamentary response such as making the Senate stay in session without stopping for breaks during the reading of the bill.



Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who developed a close friendship with President Obama when they served together in the Senate, is threatening to have the entire health care bill read on the Senate floor.

Senior Senate Democratic aides had heard Coburn was considering having potentially thousands of pages read aloud in effort to stall passage. “If he did this it would be even outrageous for a guy who’s become known as Dr. No around here,” one of them told POLITICO.

Good luck on getting Coburn to back down on this: we’re talking about a guy who has a hold on a veterans’ bill because it’s not addressing his concerns about cost duplication and discrimination. We’re also talking about a guy with an approval rating somewhere around 60 with his constituents - so that argument is out, too. Ed Morrissey thinks that this could delay the bill for up to half a year; I don’t expect it to go that far, but Coburn’s poised to be able to do one heck of a monkeywrenching job on the health care rationing bill for at least the rest of 2009…

http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/07/doctor-no-health-care-rationing-and-unanimous-consent/

[DJ13]

1. Can he get James Earl Jones to read it in his Darth Vader voice?

[MadMaddie]

2. Well the Dems say okay and read the bill because the Repugs

will break first. Go for it I say!! Show the country how spineless the repugs are.

[napi21]

3. I heard the Dems have that fast reading guy standing by.

They already anticipated this and are prepared.

[depakid]

5. That's guy's impressive...

Check him out!

http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/video/speed_reader_takes_center_stage_at_climate_change/

[DearAbby]

4. Didn't they hire a guy who could read real fast?

this is outrageous

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. I'd like to see Boner reading it - just now he sounded completely drunk on C-SPAN 1

Unless he has a speech impediment that I don't know of, he must really get blasted at lunch. He was slurring half his words. Maybe he'd consume an extra fifth of whiskey just to slow things down further.

[Ineeda]

7. Half a year? That's B.S. It's less than 2000 pages.

Granted it's a lot of pages, but you'd have to read at a very slow pace to encompass six months. Get that speed reader in. No one will understand him but they don't want to understand it anyway.

[timeforpeace]

8. Reading legislation? It's so crazy it just might work.

[BlueIdaho]

9. Meanwhile in the real world

American citizens are dying each day because they don't have access to health care - so - Thanks!

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. It IS kinda nice that the Republicans actually have to be in the Chamber for a change.

Must be chafing their butts to have to be at work.

[Bitwit1234]

11. Why dont' we sent emails to the VFW

tell they what Coburn is doing to the Vets Bill and ask them why they support republicans. Maybe they should get out of the organization.