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politico.com - 11/25/2009
GOP wrote 5 of 10 longest bills
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Great bit of legislative sleuthing by Danny Shaw and Andrew Rabinowitz at OpenCongress. You know how House and Senate Republicans mock the Democrats for introducing the longest bill in the history of bills — health care reform — longer than the Torah, longer than a 1960s ...

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Oliver Willis:  5 Of 10 Longest Bills Written By GOP

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Blue Virginia:  5 of 10 Longest Bills Were Written By...Republicans!

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5 Of 10 Longest Bills Written By GOP
Oliver Willis — ... Laws applying to 300 million people will, by design, be long. That’s just a fact, and not only is conservative bellyaching about long bills stupid… it’s hypocritical. ...

Wednesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... . * Of the 10 longest pieces of congressional legislation considered over the last decade, five of the bills were written by Republicans . (If the GOP were willing to consider ending the whining about the length of the health care bill, now would be a very good time.) * For Dana Perino, maybe Bush's first term ...

5 of 10 Longest Bills Were Written By...Republicans!
Blue Virginia — You know how Republicans like to criticize the Democrats' health care reform bill on the oh-so-substantive grounds that it's "so long?" Well, all I have to say to that is...Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. ...

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