How to Get Through a 946-Page Global Warming Bill
Nicolas Loris /
What do you do when you want to pass some of the costliest legislation in history that will strip $4300 away from the average family in higher energy taxes? Hire a speed reader, of course:
“Democrats in the House Energy and Commerce Committee have taken a novel precaution to head off Republican efforts to slow action this week on a sweeping climate bill. They are hiring a speed reader.
Republicans on the committee have said they may force the reading of the entire 946-page bill — as well as major amendments that measure several hundred pages — all aloud. This is a procedure lawmakers have a right to invoke. Republicans are largely against the bill, which aims to cut emissions of so-called greenhouse gases by more than 80% over the next half-century but would be costly.