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A handwritten amendment to the Republican tax cut bill was unable to be put into the record because no one on the Senate floor could read it.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) tweeted:

Senate Republicans can’t put their own scribbled amendment into the record because nobody can read it. This is what we’re voting on. #Page257 pic.twitter.com/SoEo4TvfBc — Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) December 2, 2017

I just tried to enter this page into the record so the American people know the kind of stunts @SenateGOP is pulling to pass their tax scam. But they wouldn’t take it. Why? Because NOBODY can read it. #Page257 https://t.co/AFw6bza3fd — Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) December 2, 2017

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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) tweeted a page of the bill that is being edited on the fly in pen on the Senate floor:

Okay this is absurd. One page of the new #GOPTaxPlan is crossed out with an ex. Another page is just a line. Is that a crossout? Is this page part of the bill?

WHY AM I ASKING THESE QUESTIONS HOURS BEFORE WE VOTE ON IT?? #GOPTaxScam pic.twitter.com/57Qbi7gT5F — Senator Bob Menendez (@SenatorMenendez) December 1, 2017

That’s one way to keep the American people in the dark. Make the bill illegible and fill it with strange pen markings on the pages.

The United States was once the example for all aspiring democracies in the world, but in less than a year, Trump and the Republicans have reduced the American system of governance to rubble.