#shorts On 12/20/2022, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was joined by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), , Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in a press conference to oppose the $1.7 trillion, 4,000+ page omnibus spending bill and argue in favor of additional amendments. Senator Lee said, “4155 pages long just put this in perspective for a minute. I speak on average uh about 120 words per minute when I speak on the senate floor. I don’t know whether that’s something to be proud of or or not. I don’t know how that stacks up to others but that’s the rate at which I typically speak on the senate floor. At that pace it would take me five straight days and by days I don’t mean eight hour work days or 10 or 12 hour work days I mean 24-hour work days five straight 24-hour periods consecutively back to back without so much as a bathroom break and certainly no opportunity for sleeping nothing other than reading take five straight consecutive days of continuous reading at that pace in order to get through this.”

Sen. Lee discussed the length of the omnibus bill and compared it to reading the Bible, noting that it was “4,155 pages long.” Lee said, “The Bible is a long book and it’s 1,200 pages long. And so going through this, reading through this, which the Bible is actually interesting and full of stories that you can follow, much more interesting than this. I mean, even when you get into the depths of Habakkuk, you’re not dealing with stuff like this. But you’d have to read, to get through the same amount of text, you’d have to read the Bible three and a half times during that same period and be able to comprehend it. And unlike the Bible, this stuff can’t be really read on its face and understood. It takes cross-referencing to understand all of that.”

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/IC9Nay0RzBg
Omnibus spending bill: take five 24-hour work days to read 4155 pages, Bible only 1200 pages long