By Edwin Mora and Adam Brickley,CNSNEws
Obama had promised Congress would actually read bills before voting
Almost all of the House members surveyed Friday by CNSNews.com had not read the entire 1,200-page climate-change bill before they were to cast their vote Friday evening. But almost all of them knew how they were going to vote.
Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) said that he supported the bill the House was considering (and subsequently approved Friday evening by a narrow 219-212 vote),but he had not read the whole bill.
“You’d have to have hours and hours and hours to be able to do all that,but we’re well aware of the main items,” Rep. Abercrombie told CNSNews.com.
But the liberal member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus also said he was skeptical about “how it works out in practice.”
“Well,I think the overall goals of the bills need to be supported,” he added. “How it works out in practice,of course,is something else.”