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Senate Infrastruction Bill is 2700 pages long

[Senate.gov] the Table of Contents is 17 pages long and calls itself the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act"

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-08-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Senate’s Infrastructure Bill Funds Welcome Centers for Migrants

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-03 09:16|| 2021-08-03 09:16|| Front Page Top

#2 For crying out loud, these lefties despite their claims to being environmentalists sure do destroy a lot of trees. Does anybody read these bills. Must have a tremendous amount of pork in it. Ima thinking the American people are getting hosed once again--the devil is in the details.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-08-03 11:12|| 2021-08-03 11:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Instead of these crazy bills, let's just give each member of Congress $10,000,000 to spend as they see fit. They could help their constituents, they could blow it all on booze and broads, invade Somalia, whatever. No questions asked. It would be a lot cheaper than the infrastructure bill and would accomplish the same purpose.

Posted by Matt 2021-08-03 12:36|| 2021-08-03 12:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Make it $10,000,000,000. and the US taxpayer would still come out ahead by a very substantial margin.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-03 13:46|| 2021-08-03 13:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Is it me or are American legislators verbose? In my country, it's unheard of for laws to be be that lengthy

Do the 2700 pages include the regulations? If not I shudder at the regulation page count.

Posted by Percy Flotle3938 2021-08-03 17:19|| 2021-08-03 17:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Not verbosity.

It requires specific language to make sure statutes are modified to allow port barrel projects and then to define the pork barrel project.

and 'infrastructure' is just a name for 'anything some rep wants funded' so it includes all manner of projects, not just highways and rail and transit

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-08-03 17:36|| 2021-08-03 17:36|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 No, it doesn't include the regulations.As of 2014, the latest year I could find on quick review, the Code of Federal Regulations has over 175,000 pages. So another 10,000 pages or so won't really matter. It's almost like they were trying to discourage people from knowing what the law is.

Posted by Matt 2021-08-03 17:56|| 2021-08-03 17:56|| Front Page Top

#8 I agree w Matt on this.

The legislation passed frequently establishes or modifies, the U.S.Code. There are 50+ titles of the USC, some of these are thousands of pages long.

Sometimes a federal agency will adopt USC language verbatim in the CFR, sometimes it will create additional language. In fact frequently, the USC language will require the Secretary of some department to promulgate regulations to execute the USC

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-08-03 18:10|| 2021-08-03 18:10|| Front Page Top

#9 In fact I suspect actual 'infrastructure' expenditures are only a minor part of the bill. the bulk of it is pork projects, studies for things like "how fast Ketchup flows down an incline'. Not to mention Planned ~~child sacrifices~~ parenthood, NAACP, New ~~Socialist~~ Green Deal, etc... All hidden in the bowels of this 2700 page monstrosity.
And the will be given only a few hours to read the entire thing.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-08-03 18:42|| 2021-08-03 18:42|| Front Page Top

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