According to their ranking minority member, none of the members of the House Rules Committee, of either party, read the $1.1 trillion dollar “omnibus” spending bill before they met to push the legislation toward the floor of the House.
Top Democrat Admits: Not One Member Of House Rules Committee Actually Read Omnibus Bill Before Hearing
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/10/Top-Democrat-Admits-Not-One-Member-Of-House-Rules-Committee-Actually-Read-Omnibus-Bill-Before-Hearing
If they had bothered to do their job, here are a few of the choice items they would have found:
A ten-fold increase in the size of individual contributions that can be received by the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, one of the main instruments used to help crush Tea Party Conservatives in the 2014 primaries.
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=75124207697efe9a19ed9a724&id=0cbdefee55
Education Spending Spree Continues Apace in Omnibus
http://dailysignal.com/2014/12/10/education-spending-spree-continues-apace-omnibus/
Rules Committee Republicans Meet, Writing 'Blank Check' for Obama's Executive Amnesty Today
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/10/Meet-Rules-Committee-Republicans-Writing-Blank-Check-For-Obama-s-Executive-Amnesty-Today
Boehner Omnibus Gives Social Security Benefits to Illegal Aliens Under Obama Amnesty
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/10/Boehner-Omnibus-Gives-Americans-Social-Security-Benefits-Away-To-Illegal-Aliens-Under-Obama-Amnesty
GOP Rep: Leadership Blocked Bill Protecting Churches from Funding Abortion
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/394360/gop-rep-leadership-blocked-bill-protecting-churches-funding-abortion-joel-gehrke
Obamacare, which almost all Republicans ran against in the 2014 election, remains fully funded.
And apparently, full funding of abortion and so-called “family planning” efforts in America and abroad, via the UN, appear to have remained completely intact.
More continues to come out about this monstrosity of a bill by the hour. Stay tuned.
If you hear a very loud noise outside tonight, it may be the sound of the gnashing of the teeth of the Republican conservatives across the land who actually thought they had won something in the November election.