Dems: Don't read it, just pass our 1,924-page Omnibus spending bill

RWB NEWS, 12/14/2010 - One Last Binge! Dems Try To Dump A 2,000 Page $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill! No Reading Or Debating It (video)!

It’s hard to believe the election only ended a month ago as the Democrat leadership attempt to rush through a nearly 2,000-page spending bill with a price tag of over a TRILLION DOLLARS in the final days of the lame-duck session ignoring the clear will expressed by the voters this past November. This bill is loaded up with pork projects…..another “We must pass it so you can see whats in it”. I thought that kind of recklessness is what people were sick of in Government. How is Congress supposed to look out for the taxpayer when they only have 3 days to look over this 2,000 page monstrosity? Let’s rush it through and just stick it to the American people AGAIN! Congress should listen to the American people and stop this reckless spending." Watch videos at Red White & Blue News (includes partial text of Fox News report)

Comment by chris.williams at Fox News:
Re: Revolt: Republicans Angry About Omnibus Spending Bill Decry 'Total Mess'

For your information:

The FY 2010 budget for the Department of Education has been $50B. The FY 2011 budget is $55B. That increase was approved months ago. So, too were the budgets of every federal agency. To "hold the line" means to approve the increases. Obamacare includes 189 new federal agencies. Those agencies are part of the "hold the line on spending" mentality. Everywhere you turn, everywhere you look, government is getting bigger by staying the same; and, it's not spending more money today because [t]hat money was added to the deficit last summer.

The Code of Federal Regulations includes every regulation in force in this country. That document is nearly 150,000 (one hundred fifty thousand pages long, spread over 50 (fifty) different volumes. The Small Business Administration puts the total price tag of complying with federal regulations at $1.75 Trillion in 2008. That amounts to $15,000 for each U.S. household. The EPA is advancing 29 proposed major rules and 173 others -- an unprecedented level of regulatory action. The massive health care law creates 183 new agencies, commissions, panels and other bodies and the financial regulatory reform bill creates nearly 500 regulatory rulemakings, 60 studies and 93 reports.

Where does the money come from to fund this Godzilla of a bureaucracy? Surprise it’s you and me our taxes. The job of the Congress -- the House and Senate --is creating, funding and overseeing it."