Dumbasses.
Senate negotiators Wednesday postponed a conference committee meeting to nail down a $789 billion stimulus package after House Democrats, unhappy with spending cuts in the compromise legislation, failed to show up.
"House Democrats don't like this bill," Rep. Joe Barton, Texas Republican and ranking minority member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told reporters in the meeting room. "This [meeting] was supposed to start 30 minutes ago, and none of them are here."
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Moments later, Sen. Daniel Inouye, Hawaii Democrat and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced a postponement of the bargaining session. He said that House Democratic leaders just then were being briefed on details of the package.
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