Natalie Gonnella
Senator Mitch McConnell today offered a one page temporary alternative to the Democrat's 1,924 page spending bill unveiled earlier this week. Of his proposal McConnell said:
I want the American people to see something. I want them to see the piece of legislation Democrats dropped on us three days before Congress was expected to wrap up and go home for Christmas break. I want the American people to cast their minds back to last year, when Democrats did the same thing. They dropped the 2,700-page health care bill on us because they didn’t want us to see what was in it...This bill is so enormous it took the Government Printing Office two days to print it. It spends more than half a billion dollars a page. It runs just under 2,000 pages. And it’s got more than a billion dollars in it for the Democrat health care bill that an ever-growing number of Americans want to repeal, not fund. This is exactly the kind of thing the American people voted against in November. It’s unbelievable, really.
Senator McConnell's one page offering is detailed below:
Unfortunately, 1,924 pages doesn't fit well within a blog post so for comparison the Democrat's version, including $8 billion in earmarks, can instead be viewed here.
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