Members of Congress Bristle over Being Given 6 Hours to Read 5,593-Page Spending Bill

This is utterly irresponsible!— Rep. Mark Green (@RepMarkGreen) December 21, 2020“This is utterly irresponsible!” Green wrote.Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he would oppose the “deficit busting” spending bill:Deficit busting bill will be 5,593 pages!If 250 words per page, then that’s 1,398,250 wordsIf Congresspeople read at the American average of 300 words/min (a big assumption)then a Congressperson might read this in 4,660 minutes or 77.68 hours!(if no rest breaks)— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 21, 2020“I will oppose this new debt, and I will continue to sound the alarm until we change our course here in Congress,” he wrote.Paul speculated it could take more than 77 hours to read it completely.The release of the text was delayed by several hours due to “computer errors,” Breitbart News previously reported.“Just another bill we have to pass before the American people discover all the goodies that special interests jammed into it over the past week,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said:We still don’t have text yet for this massive spending bill, and we’ll likely be expected to vote on it later today.Just another bill we have to pass before the American people discover all the goodies that special interests jammed into it over the past week.