VIDEO: Sen. Tom Carper admits he doesn't expect to read health care bill

Monday, 05 October 2009 08:43

In a moment of stunning candor, Senator Tom Carper admitted to CNS News that he "doesn’t expect" to actually read the health care legislation, calling it one of the "more confusing things I have ever read in my life." Carper described the type of language the actual text of the bill would finally be drafted in as "arcane," "confusing," "hard stuff to understand," and "incomprehensible."

He likened it to the "gibberish" used in credit card disclosure forms. Last week, the Finance Committee considered an amendment offered by Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) that would have required the committee to post the full actual language of the proposed legislation online for at least 72 hours before holding a final committee vote on it. The committee defeated the amendment 13-10.

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