[Avoiding_Sulla]

How is it possible that the rules to have the full bill read before the vote be avoided? I thought the Senate rules were that if a single senator asked to have it read, it must be read.

Has the senate altered its rules? Who is holding a gun to the head of all the senators so nobody requests the reading?

Somebody tell me truthfully that the procedures have not altered so much in recent years? Please.

[Cboldt]

-- I thought the Senate rules were that if a single senator asked to have it read, it must be read. --

Basically so. At some point the leader will proffer a unanimous consent request that includes waiving the reading. Absent objection, the reading is waived.

I have seen only one bill of any length read from the floor, and maybe 10 short ones (paragraph or so), in about 2 years of watching daily. The procedures haven't changed.

[TheThinker]

How is it possible that the rules to have the full bill read before the vote be avoided? I thought the Senate rules were that if a single senator asked to have it read, it must be read.

That would certainly be the democratic thing to do. Is this still a Republic anymore?

This bill is absolutely Marxist and it's being pushed through in a very authoritarian manner.

These are extremely serious warning signs for all Americans.