Cantor Concerned Immigration Reform Push Might Force House Members To Do Things Like 'Read Words'

[Galraedia]

Source: Huffington Post

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) tells Yahoo! News' Chris Moody he's concerned that the Senate's passage of a comprehensive immigration reform bill might put him in the position of having to read some words that are published in the English language. And there might be no end to the widespread need for members of Congress to do the same:

“I can’t tell you what’s in that big Senate bill, and the well over 1,000 or 1,500 pages that it may be, and that’s my concern...I don’t know if you could ask a lot of the senators what’s in that bill. And that’s my concern.”

As always, I'll point out that back when various members of the House were kvetching about how they had to read the House Health Care Reform bill, the folks over at Computational Legal Studies noted that "those versed in the typesetting practices of the United States Congress know that the printed version of a bill contains a significant amount of whitespace including non-trivial space between lines, large headers and margins, an embedded table of contents, and large font." Consequently, a mere page count "vastly overstates the actual length of [the] bill." CLS went on to note that the House Health Care Reform Bill had 363,086 words. By contrast, "Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix" contained 257,000 words.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/28/eric-cantor-immigration-bill_n_3518075.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[treestar]

1. lol that is much too much to ask of Cantor

good points about the margins. We were saying the same about the Patriot Act, but that's a good point.

[tanyev]

2. Oh God, no! Anything but that!

*drama queen swoon*

[Rebellious Republican]

3. I am sure Cantor must have been misquoted it probably should have read like this.....

"I don’t know if you could ask a lot of the REPUBLICAN senators what’s in that bill. And that’s my concern".

[Mass]

4. Actually I agree with Cantor. Can our Senators reread every word of the bills coming from the House

Too many bad provisions (inserted by the GOP caucus) have been passed because some bills were voted in a hurry.

[freshwest]

5. The GOP has been outsourcing all their bills to ALEC state by state, and federally.

The bills are written by professionals, not congressmen, labeled with names and using descriptions that are a mockery of the language, and passed unread. Part of it is that there are not enough Congressmen to do the reading, as well.

It is no wonder the same regressive laws are being offered and passed in states and Washington. Because they all come from the same source, the Koch brothers.

[monmouth3]

6. Maybe if they stopped running around looking for photo-ops and had lunch at the desk once in a

while, they could close the office door, and have a read. This isn't difficult..

[Iliyah]

7. GOPers didn't read the Obamacare bill

what makes you think they are going to read the immigration bill? Lazy and always waiting on their marching orders like good little trolls that they are.

[hue]

8. Lol! Cantor need not worry-->it just ain't going to happen-->Repukes don't know how.