If elected Members of Congress, the press, and the people, don’t have time to read the legislation, do we really have a representative republic? Members of Congress have not read this bill. Occasionally, they succeeded in changing the rules, only to have them “waived” when that too-big-to-fail (and read) bill came to the floor. Sen. Paul responded to our comment request:"Too often in Congress, legislation is shoved through without hearings, amendments or debate. Seventy-two hours to read the bill is a modest start, considering the fact that the December COVID relief bill would have taken 93 hours to read if reading a page per minute [5,593 pages /60 min=93 hours].

Source: Forbes January 28, 2021 16:07 UTC