Chaffetz: Omnibus Bill 'Bad Government at its Worst'

In an interview with radio pundit Glenn Beck, Rep. Jason Chaffetz says of the Democrats' omnibus spending bill, which passed the House last Thursday: "[T]his is bad government at its worst. When the bill was originated, it was 1,088 pages, and it has to go to the rules committee before we as members of congress in the rank and file here can actually see it. It ended up being more than 2500 pages, and we voted on it roughly 24 hours after we got it. ... There are 5,000 earmarks and at its baseline represents a 12% increase in spending for their base budgets, not counting the stimulus and all the other crap, a 12% increase over the base budget from just last year."