Watch: Ron Johnson Made Clerks Read ALL ITEMS In Stimulus In Ten Hour Embarrassment To Dems

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Watch: Ron Johnson Made Clerks Read ALL ITEMS In Stimulus In Ten Hour Embarrassment To Dems

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he will drive for Senate auditors to read out the entire 600-page $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill on the Senate floor, a measure that he assumes would probably hinder the vote on the bill by 10 hours.

“I’m going to make the Senate clerk read the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion bill. All several hundred pages of it,” Johnson announced on Twitter on Wednesday. “Then, I’m going to offer amendments. Many amendments. We need to highlight the abuse.”

“This is not a COVID relief bill. It’s a boondoggle for Democrats,” he said of the bill that passed the House with no Republican support and two Democrats voting against it.

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In an interview with Milwaukee radio station News/Talk 1130 on Wednesday, Johnson said, “The first way I’m going to resist [the bill] is I’m going to go down and object to the waiving of the reading of the bill,” adding that he will “make them read their 600 or 700-page bill, so then every member of the Senate would have time to read it as well, before we start the debate on it.”

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He said he has many improvements to offer and he believes Republicans can “highlight that this is not COVID relief.”

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“This is a Democrat wish list setting things up for a more socialist society and it needs to be resisted. I’m going to lead the effort to resist starting today. … I’m going to make them read that thing, probably about 10 hours.”

To reject a read-out of an introduced bill on the Senate floor needs unanimous consent from all 100 senators in the chamber. Readings for bills are usually dismissed to save time.

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If what Johnson suggests advances, the delay would come on top of 20 hours already set aside to debate the bill.

The Senate is not taking up the bill until Thursday, reported The Hill, mentioning an unnamed Senate Democratic aide, who said the chamber is expecting direction from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on whether it correlates with reconciliation rules that would permit it to move forward by simple majority votes and avoid the 60-vote filibuster.

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After a possible read-out of the legislation, and the debate hours are over, or there is an approval for the process to be advanced, the Senate will then start a vote-a-Rama—a marathon voting session where any legislator can bring amendments to the floor for a vote.

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said that some Republican senators want to keep adding amendments indefinitely.

“I’m hoping for infinity. There are people talking about trying to set up a schedule and having it go on and on,” he said of the vote-a-rama, reported Politico.

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