Surrounding Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Mark Sanford, and Ed Sullivan, it might be hard to remember that THERE IS A VOTE ON THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE EVER on the floor today…

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, congress, in order to ram through the 1,201 page bill, they have decided to vote today.

Thanks to @CalebHowe

This is ridiculous.  How are they expected to read the bill?  To put it in perspective, they are asking the other representatives to read Atlas Shrugged in one day…and UNDERSTAND IT!

Now, an organization called Let Freedom Ring has made a pledge card that asks congresspeople to vote on the healthcare bill, only after they have personally read it and it has been made available to the people.

And as a quick asside, two people have signed the pledge… Jim Demint and James Inhofe…

Now they just need one for the largest tax ever…

Looks like they’ll need a speed-reader…

UPDATE:  HA!  I knew it.  Harry “Doesn’t want to” Reid says no to allowing a week to read the Cap and Trade bill…

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UPDATE:  Tell those swing votes to vote no!
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Click here to see a list of swing votes.

Read–Chicago Tribune

Read–Breitbart

UPDATE:  Jesus Christ, folks.  House holds a moment of silence for Michael Jackson.  Kills me.  It’s a circus.

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UPDATE:  Greenpeace is against Cap and Trade?  Who knew?  So, it seems that the Congress is trying to put the screws to the economy for the sake of expansion of government…

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UPDATE:  They are really trying to pass a bill with a placeholder?  It’s a circus.

Rangel supports horse-trading on House floor…

Carl Levin says C&T is moral imperative…

John Larson invokes the name of T. Boone Pickens…Which is odd…because T. Boone’s Prop 10 was voted down in California in 2008…

And someone needs to tell him to stop yelling…

Is anyone else worried about all these Democrats invoking the ideas of “terrorism” and 9/11 while trying to get votes for C&T?

The Cap and Trade bill costs $700 Million a page!

UPDATE:  Representatives caught horse-trading…Barton said it best, “At least its transparent…”

UPDATE:  Gohmert: “Where is a physical copy [of the 300 page amendment?]”

–silence–

That silence is so telling.

Apparently, they can’t find a physical copy of the 300 page amendment…

And also, there isn’t a rule that requires a physical copy to vote…or, if there is, the important sounding person at the big podium isn’t aware of one…

Barton: “If a bill for which there is no copy were to actually pass House, could bill be sent to Senate having no copy?”

Apparently there isn’t a copy…anywhere…even on the desk…

Will they recess to form a search party to find the 300 page amendment?  Barton requested a short recess to find the official copy…

Markey says no.

It’s a circus…

Jason Chaffetz, Representative from Utah, said on tweeted, “Dems still don’t have a final finished hard copy of bill, 1,500 pages now.  And we are supposed to vote on this? Nobody has read it in full.”

Representative Bilbray: “The biggest threat to environment is the smoke coming from backroom deals”

A representative wished to have a moment of silence for those who will lose their jobs had his request objected to…

UPDATE:  Well, John Boehner is going to fillabuster!  He is going to read every page of the 300 page amendment…

I guess that means they found it…

Watch it Live Here.

Hope he brought a diaper…or a pail…

Boenher turned 2.5 minutes into an Hour!  Good work, sir!

WORK THOSE PHONES!

Here’s how he did it.

Watch him tell it like it is…

“It is the custom of the house is to listen to the leader’s comments.”

Cap and Trade has passed in the House.

Now we must work the Senate.  And find out who those 8 Republicans were…

219-212

After the jump:  Who were the Republican turncoats?  Also, more updates…

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Lord Christopher Monckton, an adviser to Margret Thatcher, was to testify with Al Gore in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The discussion is part of the committee meetings about the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.

Monckton had this to say, “The Democrats have a lot to learn about the right of free speech under the US Constitution. Congress Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) refusal to expose Al Gore’s sci-fi comedy-horror testimony to proper, independent scrutiny by the House minority reeks of naked fear.”

According to the article:

“…Monckton claims that when the Democrats were told who the GOP witness would be, they refused to allow him to testify alongside Gore.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) –

Total public debt subject to limit April 16	     11,125,587
Statutory debt limit				     12,104,000
Total public debt outstanding April 16		     11,183,899
Operating balance April 16				257,351
Interest fiscal year 2009 thru February 		148,762
Interest same period 2008				198,518
Deficit fiscal year 2009 thru February			764,525
Deficit same period 2008				264,541
Receipts fiscal year 2009 thru February 		860,877
Receipts same period 2008				967,153
Outlays fiscal year 2009 thru February		      1,625,402
Outlays same period 2008			      1,231,694
Gold assets in March					 11,041




My those are some ugly, ugly numbers...

Well folks the witching hour is almost upon us as the Sacramento Tea Party is about to get underway. We will update you–our intrepid reader–often throughout the day, so be sure to keep your computer or mobile device tuned into The Harrington Report’s webiste number for the most up-to-the-minute coverage of this historic day!

9:22 am PDT: Here we see the setup for our liveblog–contained in a backpack…

11:04 am PDT: Matt has just checked in and reports that he has set up right in front of the podium. Folks, it looks like we are set to bring you the best coverage of the events in Sacramento!

11:37 am PDT: The first shots from the ground are beginning to come in from Matt. Really great shots of the stage and a really beautiful day.