[masonic]

That's how Pelosi runs things. That's a faithful paraphrase of what she said before the ACA (Obamacare) votes. Neither the rank-and-file of either party not the Republican leadership got to see the ACA final bill contents before the vote.

[djur]

It is a deeply misleading excerpt of something Pelosi said, not "faithful" in any way. And the claim that nobody got to read the ACA before the vote is simply not true. You can see the main bill being repeatedly debated and amended on the floor of the Senate from early October 2010 until late December here:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/3590...

The House passed the Senate bill several months later. It was then amended by the 2010 reconciliation act, which resolved some issues the House had with the Senate bill. That passed much more quickly (because it was a smaller and less controversial bill), but it still was presented on the floor of the House a week before it eventually passed:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/4872...

[DrScump]

  You can see the main bill

But not the final bill, which is the only one that matters. Compare the early October version with the Chaptered (final) version.