HOUSE Republican Leader John Boehner

Democrats Hire a “Speed Reader” For Massive National Energy Tax

The Democrats on the House Energy & Commerce Committee are continuing their push to impose a new National Energy Tax today.  The bill is 946 pages long - almost as massive as the 1,100 page “stimulus” bill the Democrats rammed through the Congress earlier this year.  In fact, it’s so long, Democrats have hired a speed reader, as The Wall Street Journal reported this morning:

Democrats in the House Energy and Commerce Committee have taken a novel precaution to head off Republican efforts to slow action this week on a sweeping climate bill.  They are hiring a speed reader.  Republicans on the committee have said they may force the reading of the entire 946-page bill - as well as major amendments that measure several hundred pages - all aloud.  This is a procedure lawmakers have a right to invoke.

The unidentified speed reader can read a page “about every 34 seconds,” according to the Journal.  Still, it would take him nine hours of non-stop reading to get through the entire bill.

House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee have offered several common sense amendments to the National Energy Tax bill, which would cost families up to $3,100 per year.  As Congress Now noted:

At the markup, several Republicans offered amendments that would repeal the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) if electricity rates, unemployment levels and gasoline prices rise to certain levels.  All told, the panel considered 17 amendments to the bill during the markup’s second day, but no GOP provisions were attached to the legislation.

Democrats seem intent on ramming their National Energy Tax through the Congress, without regard to the burdens it would impose on American families or small businesses.  House Republicans will continue to highlight their better solutions on energy, including:

• Increasing environmentally-safe energy production on remote lands and far off our shores;
• Promoting the use of alternative fuels that will reduce carbon emissions, such as nuclear, clean-coal, and renewable energy technologies; and
• Encouraging conservation to preserve and protect our natural resources.

Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-IN) will host a series of forums next week in California, Pennsylvania, and Indiana to highlight the plan - and shine a spotlight on the devastating consequences of the Democrats’ national energy tax.

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2 Responses to “Democrats Hire a “Speed Reader” For Massive National Energy Tax”

1. Julie M Says:
   May 20th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

   DO NOT PASS ANY MORE BILLS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN READ!!! For crying out loud, we are sick of this BS!

2. Kerry Rietmann Says:
   May 20th, 2009 at 2:52 pm

   We must find a way to expose this irresponsible action to the American people. Republican leaders need to speak more loudly, more emphatically, more clearly;in every public forum they can find. People need to know that Democratic leaders are not even attempting to lead anymore - they are lemmings heading for the cliff mindlessly following their leader. Please don’t let them drag all of us and our very nation on over!!

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