Sen. Mike Lee Against 4155 Page Omnibus

On the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Mike Lee goes through his objections to the 4155 page omnibus spending package which the Senate is passing

Sen. Mike Lee: Madam President, this act, this bill before us is an act of legislative barbarism. This is an act of extortion being leveraged on the United States Senate right before Christmas. Make no mistake why this happened. This bill, in all 4155 pages of its glory or infamy, was negotiated in secret by four or five members of Congress, excluding all others, which means that nearly 330 million Americans were disenfranchised in the production of legislative behemoth. They wrote it utterly in secret with the design of creating an artificial emergency, threatening a shutdown right before Christmas. In fact they set up government funding to expire the day before Christmas Eve, realizing that that's when members are at appoint of vulnerability. Members of both houses and both political parties want to get home, understandable, to spend the holidays with their families.

It's also the moment when they realize that our constituents are most vulnerable, most fearful of something like a government shutdown. That's when the most pressure will be brought to bear on members of the House and Senate, Democrats and Republicans, if, heaven forbid, there were a shutdown.

And so at this time of a manufactured crisis, it is said that is the right moment to unveil this bill that they've drafted in secret. The part that's stunning is that enough members of the United States Senate, a body that Prides itself on being the world's greatest deliberative body, would choose to support this bill, never having read it. That really is stunning. As an entity that strives to be the world's greatest deliberative body we sure don't act like it sometimes, but we should. Our rules our traditions our customs and our obligation to our constituents demands nothing less.

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