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Where’s My Change, Son?

By Kleinheider Posted on February 15, 2009 at 11:50 am

First District Congressman Phil Roe on the stimulus package:

“We got it at 9 o’clock yesterday morning and voted at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon,” Roe said of the bill. “No one has read this bill. I can promise you not one senator, not one representative in the United States Congress has read that.”

Roe said he did find questionable expenses in the bill, such as $450 million for a new Homeland Security building and $30 million for buying wetlands in San Francisco.

The federal government, Roe said, can’t keep up with disbursements from the multibillion-dollar financial industry bailout passed by Congress last year.

“If I sent my kids to McDonald’s with a hundred dollar bill and they bought a couple hamburgers, I’d want to know where the change is. … Right now we don’t know where the (bailout) change is,” Roe said.

(HT: Angelia)

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3 Responses to “Where’s My Change, Son?”

  1. dontcallmemikey writes
    February 15th, 2009 5:36 pm

    … ans since he didn’t READ it before voting AGAINST it, its a very good possibility he’ll still wonder.

    Honestly - sometimes they say things that make you wanna scream.

    ‘I voted against it because it had a lot of junk in it, or so I was told by leadership, since I didn’t bother to read it - and, you know, I doubt they read it either.’ Wonder if that’s how he approached medicine?

  2. Sean Braisted writes
    February 15th, 2009 7:47 pm

    I can guarantee you that if the bill had been out a week, not a single Congressman or Senator would’ve run it cover to cover. Find me a legislator whose read the entire omnibus spending package, which is generally 10 times bigger than the surplus?

  3. phil roe writes
    March 17th, 2009 10:03 pm

    I did read the entire House version of the Stimulus package but did not have the time to read 1072 pages in 5 hours. Games are played with the House rules on both sides which makes good legislation difficult. I am and was a very deticated physician and will serve Congress the same way.

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