Pork Passes

Posted by: admin

Well folks, the largest spending bill in history has passed the House. Here are the Final Vote Results for Roll Call 70.

The final language was posted last night, and links to the various docs may be found at Speaker Pelosi’s website. The four major files are more than 100MB in size. You may find it interesting that they chose not to create a searchable PDF, making it impossible to read. Here’s to a computer-savvy congress and an Obama administration dedicated to “transparency.” Rather, you get a scan of a printed version, containing rather telling markups: 

 

hr1_legtext_cr.pdf – Created 2/12/2009 11:44:51 PM Modified 2/13/2009 12:40:12 AM
hr1_legtext_crb.pdf – Created 2/12/2009 11:55:17 PM Modified 2/13/2009 1:19:36 AM

hr1_cr_jse.pdf – Created 2/12/2009 10:22:08 PM Modified 2/13/2009 1:02:34 AM
hr1_cr_jseb.pdf – Created 2/12/2009 10:22:44 PM Modified 2/13/2009 1:26:21 AM

Looks like it really was a late night for Congress.