Bankruptcy
Oct. 23, 1998
Behemothic Bill Weighs In at 40 Pounds, $520B
WASHINGTON - Call it Jurassic Pork, or maybe a budgetbillosaurus. The $520-billion spending package passed by the Senate and signed into law by the president Wednesday is 4,000 pages long, 16 inches thick and weighs about 40 pounds. And just as nobody quite knows how the dinosaurs died off, nobody seems to know exactly what this bill ate to get so big.
The $520-billion spending package passed by the Senate and signed into law by the president Wednesday is 4,000 pages long, 16 inches thick and weighs about 40 pounds. And just as nobo...
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