Omnibus Spending Bill Posted – In Useless Format
Posted by Jim Harper
The $500 billion omnibus spending bill to fund the most of federal government for the rest of the year will be debated in the House this week. And it has now finally been posted online.
It’s a PDF of scanned pages, meaning it can’t be searched or parsed in any other way. All 1,133 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »
Bailout Bill in the House Rules Committee
Posted by Jim Harper
Representative Spencer Bachus (R-AL) is before the House Rules Committee arguing that the Treasury Department can’t even use all of the $700 billion that the bailout legislation would authorize. At most, it could move $50 billion per month.
Congress can allow Treasury some of the money, take a look later at a couple of months of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »