Hoyer - "If Every Member Pledged to Not Vote For it if They Hadn’t Read it in Its Entirety, I Think we Would Have Very Few Votes"

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D) admitted that almost no one in congress would read the Health Care Reform Bill before voting on it. Indeed he found the idea funny. Not reading important bills before voting on them is unfortunately becoming par for the course.

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50677

"House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it.

“If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference.
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In fact, Hoyer found the idea of the pledge humorous, laughing as he responded to the question. “I’m laughing because a) I don’t know how long this bill is going to be, but it’s going to be a very long bill,” he said."

The pledge Hoyer finds so humorous put forth by Colin Hanna (president of Let Freedom Ring);

"By signing the “Responsible Health-care Reform Pledge,” lawmakers commit to reading the entire bill and making it available to the public for three days before they cast their votes.

The pledge says, “I, (Name inserted here), pledge to my constituents and to the American people that I will not vote to enact any health-care reform package that: 1) I have not read, personally, in its entirety; and, 2) Has not been available, in its entirety, to the American people on the Internet for at least 72 hours, so that they can read it too.”"

Can someone remind me (or more importantly, them) what these people actually do and what Obama ran on / pledged?