Congress Just Authorized $1.1 Trillion in SpendingAnd Nobody Read the BillKimberly Paxton Please note my sarcasm. Its triggered by the recent spending bill passed by Congress all 1, 582 pages of it. Wouldnt you think that before authorizing something so massive that our members of Congress would have read it? Or at the very least, have hired someone to read it and summarize it for them? Nope. On Capitol Hill on Thursday, CNSNews.com asked Blumenauer: The omnibus bill yesterday, it was 1,582 pages, did you have a chance to read all the pages before voting on it? Blumenauer laughed and said: Nobody did! Nobody did? said the CNSNews.com reporter. Nope, said Blumenauer. (source) This isnt even corruption. It goes way beyond that. This is our elected representatives giving us the middle finger and then laughing about it. Because its all a big joke to them. They make salaries most of us can only dream about earning and they dont even have enough respect for those of us who put them into office to, I dont know, do their jobs! How much do they make, you ask? Members of Congress are paid $174,000 per year for their service. Some with special jobs receive more. For Example, House Speaker John Boehner receives $223,500. Then, of course, there is a budget for each office. Are you sitting down? Each office budgets between $1.27 million to $1.546 million. Congress has 535 members. So at the minimum, $679,450,000 is paid to run the offices of these people who do not care enough to read the bills that they are voting onin our best interests, of course. Almost $700 million dollars is spent on staffing and office expenses and no one had time to read a bill before voting yes and signing it into law???? And the member of Congress interviewed by CNS laughed about this? Incidentally, the bill budgeted 1.1 TRILLION DOLLARS for government spending for the rest of the fiscal year, increasing federal spending by$44.8 billion. I wonder what that extra money was spent on. I guess I cant ask my Congressman because he didnt read the bill. Related selfnews Post Article: Kimberly Paxton is a staff writer for the Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared. Sheis based out of upstate New York. 