Senate bill weighs in at 2,074 pages

Politico ^ | 11/18/09 | staff

[Nachum]

In the Battle of the Health Bills, the Senate wins out, bulk-wise – weighing in at 2,074 pages.

The House health reform bill was a mere 1,990 pages when introduced.

That means the Senate bill -- like the one in the House -- runs more pages than War and Peace, and has nearly five times as many words as the Torah.

The table of contents alone is 14 pages.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[autumnraine]

And it’s attached to an IRS homeowners tax credit. Go figure.

[BigFinn]

Naughty, naughty... the environmentalists won’t like that. They need to purchase some carbon offsets from the Carbonista... alGorE.

[Tennessee Nana]

Senate bill weighs in at 2,074 pages
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And that just the pages from the House Appropriations Committee listing the costs...

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many 00000000s (Zeros)

Wait till we get the actual bill itself...

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . runs more pages than War and Peace.

Cumbersome and poisonous as it may be, it holds not a candle to the number of *words* in War and Peace.

[jveritas]

As long as they have socialized medicine aka public option in the bill they are not going to get 60 votes for cloture on the final vote. They will get a cloture to debate but not a cloture for final vote because Lieberman made it clear that he is not going to vote for cloture on the final vote. Also NO Republicans including RINOS are going to vote for cloture on the final vote.

I strongly believe that the democrats will not dare go the nuclear option on this one.

[Major Matt Mason]

$849 billion, eh? I sincerely doubt that with this much paperowrk involved. But even that amount is too much for us to handle, now.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Long Table of Contents so they don’t have to read the bill, I guess. Table of Contents equals the Cliffnote version.

[MattMa]

Here you go.

http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf

[Cobra64]

"I just tried to read this bill..."

[SnakeDoctor]

Dumb headline ... if you’re going to say “weighs in”, you should measure in lbs, not pages.

SnakeDoc

[Migraine]

This is a freakin Christmas tree for Acorn, the universities and the charlatan mental health clinics:

`(a) Grants Authorized- The Secretary may award grants to eligible institutions of higher education to support the recruitment of students for, and education and clinical experience of the students in—

`(1) baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degree programs of social work, as well as the development of faculty in social work;

`(2) accredited master’s, doctoral, internship, and post-doctoral residency programs of psychology for the development and implementation of interdisciplinary training of psychology graduate students for providing behavioral and mental health services, including substance abuse prevention and treatment services;

`(3) accredited institutions of higher education or accredited professional training programs that are establishing or expanding internships or other field placement programs in child and adolescent mental health in psychiatry, psychology, school psychology, behavioral pediatrics, psychiatric nursing, social work, school social work, substance abuse prevention and treatment, marriage and family therapy, school counseling, or professional counseling; and

`(4) State-licensed mental health nonprofit and for-profit organizations to enable such organizations to pay for programs for preservice or in-service training of paraprofessional child and adolescent mental health workers.

This kind of spending on liberal baubles is a liberal dream and a conservative nightmare. This part has nothing to do with health insurance reform.

This really torques my tamales.

[MattMa]

Subtitle F—Shared Responsibility for Health Care
PART I—INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
Sec. 1501. Requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage.
Sec. 1502. Reporting of health insurance coverage.

[org.whodat]

The loop hole deal around the abortion amendment from the house was a new twist. Oh, well, the house bill could have been killed. I'd say about a 60% chance of passing now.

[EGPWS]

"I just tried to read this bill..."

Me too, please don't squeeze the Charmin.

[Man50D]

The Constitution is seventeen pages. Congress should pass legislation that no bill can have more pages than the Constitution.

[earlJam]

Just curious.

How many pages in the Bible?

And how long does God give us to read it and understand it?

[ExTexasRedhead]

2,000+ pages of pure RAT feces.

[daniel1212]

Pages depends on font and page size, but

SUMMARY OF KING JAMES BIBLE STATISTICS:

Total Books in the King James Bible = 66

Total Chapters in the King James Bible = 1,189

Total verses in the King James Bible = 31,102

Total words in the 31,102 verses = 788,258 (not including the Hebrew Alphabet in Psalm 119 or the superscriptions listed in some of the Psalms)

Total Books in the Old Testament = 39

Total Chapters in the Old Testament = 929

Total verses in the Old Testament = 23,145

Total Books in the New Testament = 27

Total Chapters in the New Testament = 260

Total verses in the New Testament = 7,957

Middle Book in the King James Bible = There are 2 – Micah & Nahum

Longest Book in the King James Bible = Psalms

Shortest Book in the King James Bible = 2 John (verses) & 3 John (words)

Middle Chapter in the King James Bible = Psalm 117

Longest Chapter in the King James Bible = Psalm 119

Shortest Chapter in the King James Bible = Psalm 117

Middle verse in the King James Bible = There are 2 – Psalm 103:1 & Psalm 103:2

Longest verse in the King James Bible = Esther 8:9

Shortest verse in the King James Bible = John 11:35

Statistics from1 http://www.biblebelievers.com/believers-org/kjv-stats.htm

Total words in just the verses in the KJV being counted at 788,258. And for comparison: At less than 80,000 words, (figures vary: 77,701 in Arabic by one source,[3] 77,439 by ‘Ata bin Yasar[4]) http://conservapedia.com/The_Bible_versus_the_Qur%27an