(2004-11-23) — A $388 billion omnibus spending bill which was held up over the weekend by discovery of a secret provision allowing Congress to examine individual tax returns met another roadblock today when a Senate aide found that the 3,000-page measure contained the entire text of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s memoir, Living History.

“We’re busy politicians,” said Sen. John McCain, R-AZ. “We don’t have time to plow through thousands of pages of legislation. Congress votes based on what the Washington Post says the bill contains.”

Meanwhile, Sen. Clinton’s office released a statement condemning what she called the “vast right-wing conspiracy to put my book where nobody will ever see it.”