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For Bills in Congress, How Long is Long?
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Nov 25, 2009 02:21pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | Donny Shaw |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 25, 2009 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As soon as Senate Democrats released their health care reform bill, Republicans began calling it out on its length. It’s “longer than Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch [R, OK] last week at a press conference set up by Senate Republicans to slam the bill.
The size of the bills has become a common talking point for opponents of health care reform. Congressional Republicans have repeatedly referenced the number of pages in the Democrats’ health care bills to try to link them to big government and excessive spending. They’ve even staged antics, like the one pictured at right of Rep. Pete Hoekstra [R, MI-2] and the House bill spread along the Capitol steps.
But long bills are written by both Democrats and Republicans. The second longest bill to appear in Congress over the past ten years was authored by Republican Rep. Don Young [R, AK-1]. It’s a mere 68 words shorter than the House health care bill. Of the 10 longest bills in the past ten years, five were written by Democrats and five were written by Republicans. |
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