House GOP demands more time to study one-sentence bill that would end Trump's emergency.

[DetlefK]

Link to tweet

[procon]

1. Adult illiteracy must be widespread amongst

Republican members of the House.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

2. Half a page - Waaaaay to complicated for Mr. Cole.

Give him something EASY like a 503 page Tax Scam which was "reviewed" and marked up on average at a rate of 11 pages per day. Having five days to review an entire half page is just too exhausting. Shame on the House.

[kentuck]

3. Sounds like some may be searching for an excuse after the fact.

They have had an abundance of time to know what is happening.

[DeminPennswoods]

4. O'Donnell's riff on this

last night was hilarious. He showed and read the whole resolution on air, it took 22 seconds to read.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. If I were a republican legislator, I'd be embarrassed by this...

For the rest of us, this is a disgrace and evidence of more roadblocks to a more effective government, which obviously the republicans don't want. Why not? To retain their trillions of dollars of tax cuts longer in place, to shelter their incompetent president so they can get more stuff signed into law or get another supreme court appointment, etc.

Pathetic.

[TomSlick]

6. Slow studies.

[Takket]

7. Hey DU.... remember this beauty???

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/1/16726234/handwritten-republican-tax-bill

Senate Republicans are down to the wire on their tax bill — so much so that the legislation, which would massively overhaul the nation’s tax code, has large portions that are handwritten.

Mere hours ahead of the Senate’s tax vote, Republicans have yet to release an official copy of the tax bill. The only legislative text that has been internally circulated by Senate staff and tax lobbyists, and made public first by Bloomberg reporter Sahil Kapur, includes large swaths of policy changes in handwriting, filled between the lines and in the margins of a previous copy.

The handwritten policy changes include changes to the language around the expansion of the child tax credit and how to tax pass-through companies, like LLCs or partnerships, that are transitioning into corporations that are taxed at a different rate. The handwritten edits also cross out an entire segment of the bill giving a tax deduction for tuition payments toward some qualified religious instruction.