‘We hope that Democrats in Congress don’t attempt to shut the American taxpayer out of this process by trying to pass a bill that hasn’t been the subject of bipartisan review and that hasn’t been available for public inspection’
LOUISVILLE – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Friday regarding the as-yet-unwritten Trillion-Dollar Spending Bill and the need for the American taxpayer to have time to review the legislation:
“We agree with President-elect Obama that taking action to turn the economy around is job one. We also agree, though, that every dollar needs to be spent wisely and not wasted in the rush to get it spent. And we believe that his admonition to ‘go through the federal budget—page by page, line by line—eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way’ should apply to this, potentially the largest spending bill ever considered by the Congress. And we hope that Democrats in Congress don’t attempt to shut the American taxpayer out of this process by trying to pass a bill that hasn’t been the subject of bipartisan review and that hasn’t been available for public inspection.”
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