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To: Alighieri who wrote (516979)9/29/2009 11:56:48 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1578931
 
This is frigging annoying......can't we cut this guy's health insurance for sleeping on the job?!!

Bunning falls asleep during health care bill mark-up.




Yesterday during the Senate Finance Committee’s mark-up of chairman Max Baucus’ (D-MT) health care bill, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) chastised the whole operation. “I do not support a government takeover of the health-care system,” Bunning complained, saying the bill “confiscates more money from the taxpayers” and “tramples on American freedom and liberties.” Soon after, Bunning decided to take a little nap:

During opening remarks at the Senate Finance Committee session, the Kentucky Republican appeared fast asleep for several minutes, with his head cocked to the side and his eyes closed, before a staffer roused him. Bunning’s head was propped in his hand and his mouth was slightly open while he slept, several witnesses told HOH.

The staffer nudged his shoulder to wake him once it became clear that members of the audience had noticed the snoozing Senator (it was apparently the giggling from the crowd that tipped the staffer off).

The Washignton Post’s Dana Milbank writes that “Bunning’s nap was a fitting comment on how he and his Republican colleagues had received” Baucus’ efforts to craft a bipartisan bill.

thinkprogress.org
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