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Colorado

mahatmakanejeeves

(63,045 posts) Tue Mar 12, 2019, 10:23 AM Mar 2019

To slow down Democrats, Colorado Republicans requested a 2,000-page bill be read in its entirety. [View all]

David Fahrenthold Retweeted

To slow down Democrats, Colorado Republicans requested a 2,000-page bill be read in its entirety. But Democrats then decided to have the bill read by a computer at a speed incomprehensible to humans http://bit.ly/2F4m6gG via @denverpost

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To slow down Democrats, Colorado Republicans requested a 2,000-page bill be read in its entirety. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2019 OP

Cheese Ball Politics. What? Did they take lessons from the Republican controlled WI legislature? Firestorm49 Mar 2019 #1

Clever...having a computer read the bill ... got to keep this in mind for use in Wash DC in case... SWBTATTReg Mar 2019 #2

How long would it take an actual human to read the bill outloud? Merlot Mar 2019 #3

Here is video from the statehouse floor of that bill being read: mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2019 #4

A middle school teacher introduced us to Moschitta's work TlalocW Mar 2019 #5

It must be what they always called The Long Bill eleny Mar 2019 #6

Update: Judge rules Democrats can't use computers to combat GOP efforts to slow Colorado Senate TexasTowelie Mar 2019 #7