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To: RetiredNow who wrote (4990)	2/15/2009 9:37:23 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

This isn't a "manual", its a spending bill. Runs about a billion dollar a page. What kind of exec would pass up reading a document if every page in it had a billion or so spending authorization on it, smartass? Is that how things work in your biz? Would only amateurs think an exec should okay something that spends a billion dollars without knowing a damn thing about it? The staffers are saying they don't have this bill. They're complaining that K street lobbyists do: Congressional Offices Don't Have the Stimulus Bill, LOBBYISTS Do February 12, 2009 Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers USNews& World Report usnews.com We're receiving E-mails from Capitol Hill STAFFERS expressing frustration that they can't get a copy of the stimulus bill agreed to last night at a price of $789 billion. What's more, STAFFERS are complaining about who does have a copy: K Street LOBBYISTS. E-mails one key Democratic staffer: "K Street has the bill, or chunks of it, already, and the congressional offices don't. So, the Hill is getting calls from the press (because it's leaking out) asking us to confirm or talk about what we know—but we can't do that because we haven't seen the bill. Anyway, peeps up here are sort of a combo of confused and like, 'Is this really happening?'" Reporters pressing for details, meanwhile, are getting different numbers from different offices, especially when seeking the details of specific programs. Worse, there seem to be several different versions of what was agreed upon, with some officials circulating older versions of the package that seems to still be developing. Leadership aides said that it will work out later today and promised that lawmakers will get time to review the bill before Friday's vote. Get that part about several different versions? Could it be that no one really knows what the final package is? Take a gander at this - showing how the bill is written: For an additional amount for "Science", $1,600,000,000. 4.bp.blogspot.com What science? NASA, CDC, what? Nobody knows. It doesn't say, just another 1.6 billion to dole out to whoever, whatever you want to call science related. Oh, great non-amateur, expert in the ways of business, would an exec in your world sign off on spending $1.6 billion for "science" and no other description, no other authorization? Let me repeat what I said: Any one who supports the current trillion dollar hurry up "stimulus" bill that no Senator or Congressman has even read, that lobbyists had before Congressional staffers, and claims to be fiscally responsible is a liar.