Congress has once again passed a measure that members did not (couldn’t have read), reminiscent of the Obamacare Act.

Obamacare has proven a huge failure, raising costs and reducing medical care.

The newest (but certainly not the last) false measure foisted on Americans is the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package.

Lawmakers tacked on a $1.4 trillion catchall spending bill and thousands of pages of other end-of-session business to create a massive bundle of bipartisan legislation.

Officially called the Consolidated Appropriations Act, it is a 5,593 pages long - containing 1,098,082 20 words - recipe for the destruction of America’s economy and a limited government republic.

President Donald Trump has wisely asked Congress to review the monstrosity.

Jarrett Stepman, a contributor to The Daily Signal, points out that the average person reads around 250 words a minute and at that speed it would take three days, one hour and 12 minutes to read the bill.

It has more words than the Bible.

A House vote was scheduled to take place just hours the same day after the text was released.

Stepman points out that the almost immediate vote on the massive bill only reinforces the idea that Congress has abandoned its governing responsibilities.

“The idea that gigantic federal spending bills are being carefully considered and deliberated upon by the legislators closest to the people has become a farce,” Stepman writes.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, has relentlessly called out the lunacy

“The powers that be wanted more time to cook up a bloated, backroom spending “deal” without a real vote.

“I called for a vote and voted no,”Roy said.

“We shouldn’t be doing this behind closed doors.”

Of course, many Americans are hurting because of the Chinese virus pandemic, which looks more and more like an intentional rather than an accidental release of a deadly disease.

If Congress had actually wanted to create some relief for suffering individuals it could have been done with a one-page measure that could have been quickly approved and sent to the president for signing.

President Trump had called for such a bill earlier but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to take such a sensible action, obviously waiting for a rigged election that would put Democrat Joe Biden in the White House.

Roy along with other Republican legislators blasted the bill in a Fox News column a few days before the new spending bill was finally released.

The lawmakers wrote that House rules changes have shut down open debate on legislation, and enormous bills are voted on just hours after text is released.

“The framers of our Constitution-the ones who spent months carefully deliberating and debating the ends and means of government in a stuffy room with the windows closed in Philadelphia over 200 years ago-never intended for us to do business this way,” the group wrote, adding:

Congress, due to its nature and design, was given the responsibility of thoughtfully deliberating on behalf of the American people.

“That’s why we were elected, to ensure that we address the needs and desires of the whole American people, not just the ones whose representatives have a seat at the table of congressional leadership,” Roy said.

Stepman added:

“With the vast increase in both the size and role of the federal government has come an accelerating uptick in opaque, pork-laden legislation, an engorgement of the lobbyist and government contractor classes that orbit the federal district, and a deferment of governing responsibility to an unaccountable ‘fourth branch’ of executive and legislative administrative state bureaucrats.

“As such, it’s no surprise the Washington, D.C., suburbs comprise the richest ZIP codes in America, Stepman said.

“It might be business as usual in our nation’s capital, but it’s eroding the carefully calibrated system designed to ensure liberty and self-government.”

Stepman, of course, was taking the position that the House majority could be an honorable bunch rather than a leftist cabal serious about taking down the nation they were elected to serve.

Andrea Widburg wrote in American Thinker:

“Late Monday night, in a huge, secretive rush, Congress passed a combined virus relief and omnibus spending bill that’s almost 6,000 pages long and, in less than a year, will spend $2.3 trillion that does not exist.

“The bill’s length alone is enough to justify a second American Revolution.”

Later she added this:

“Words cannot describe the level of disgust I feel for the 91 senators and 359 House members who passed the bill. But you know what? It’s the American people who keep voting these corruptocrats and cowards into office.”

She calls the bill a “trap” for President Trump. If he vetoes it, he can be slammed for opposing relief to suffering people. If he signs it, he becomes party to the mess.

Just for the record, here are six senate patriots voting no: Marsha Blackburn, R-TN; Sen. Ted Cruz, RTX; Sen. Mike Lee, RUT; Sen. Rand Paul, RKY; Sen. Rick Scott, RFL, and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-WL

A contributor to a discussion site we read occasionally compiled a list of the expenditures contained in the legislation.

We haven’t attempted to do that (being a slow reader) but we think the writer is probably correct. If you disagree let me know,

Here is the list:

Migrant and Refugee Assistance. $300,000,000

Endowment for the Arts. $300,000,000

Endowment for the Humanities. $30,000,000,000

Department of Education stabilization fund; because that will keep people employed. $200,000,000

Safe Schools Emergency Response to Violence Program. $300,000,000

Public Broadcasting / NPR has to be bought by the Dems.

Museums and Libraries / Who the heck knows how they are going to use it?

Social Security Admin / but get this...Only $200,000,000 is to help people. The rest is for admin costs. $25,000,000

Cleaning supplies for the Capitol Building / it’s on Page 136. $7,500,000

Smithsonian for additional salaries. $35,000,000

JFK Center for Performing Arts / again? $25,000,000

Additional salary for House of Representatives. like they need more pay! $3,000,000,000

Upgrade to the IT department at the VA. $315,000,000

State Department Diplomatic Programs. $95,000,000

Agency of International Development.

Misc. Senate Expenses -Page 134. $1,000,000,000

Airlines Recycle and Save Program -Page 163. $25,000,000

FAA for administrative costs -Page 165.

National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) -Page 167.

Grants to Amtrak to remain available if needed through 2021-Page - 168 (what are the odds that doesn’t go unused) *Hidden on page 174 the Secretary has 7 days to allocate the funds & notify Congress. $25,000,000,000

Transit Infrastructure -Page 169. $3,000,000

Maritime Administration -Page 172. $5,000,000

Salaries and Expensive Office of the Inspector General -Page 172. $2,500,000

Public and Indian Housing -Page 175. $5,000,000

Community Planning and Development -Page 175. $2,500,000 Office of Housing.

(There were more. Then a contributor, American Vet, spotted these “importantant” expenditures:

$1.4 trillion is going to things such as a climate advisory program

$10 million taxpayer dollars for gender programs in Pakistan.

An investigation into the 1908 Springfield Race Riot

Horse racing integrity (including performance-enhancing drugs)

Funding for museum exhibits about women

$700 million for Sudan

$135 million for Burma

$85.5 million to Cambodia

billion for Asia Reassurance

$130 million for Nepal

$193 million for cars for federal HIV/AIDS workers stationed abroad

Funds to stop teenagers from drinking and hooking up

$40 million for the Kennedy Center (which already got $25 million but fired its employees anyway), hundreds of millions to Palestinians.