Ron Johnson, the Senator from Wisconsin, is determined to slow, if not stifle, the COVID19 economic booster bill.
His new tactic makes it quite literal: He wants the entire 638-page bill read aloud on the floor of the Senate before it goes to a vote. It'll take a lot of hours, but no Senator is going to sit there and listen to it, and no Senator is going to read it aloud. Senate staffers will mouth every word into the blank eye of the CSPAN camera.
Presumably, any bullheaded, discourteous obstacle that a Republican lawmaker tosses in the road will cadge a few more votes from the Trump fans.
But this one has even Republicans wondering why. “I’m not sure it really makes a point. It doesn’t punish anybody except members of the staff … and pretty much all 100 senators,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D).
Johnson hasn't said for sure whether he'll run again, but he recently scored another point with Trump voters by claiming that the insurrection was initiated by “fake” Trump supporters.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541741-ron-johnson-grinds-senate-to-halt-irritating-many?fbclid=IwAR2H6pgLY07D6-U7B5dnexVa_hg7ZBnhhpa4xW9fMd5KQiBMrrTH9mACWFQ
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