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Congress is totally broken, large bills like this are consistently shoved through and members of congress aren't given the opportunity to even read them before it's voted on. What's worse is they vote to pass them not even knowing what's inside, and what's even worse than that is that most of them couldn't care less about what's inside. They get told by the party leaders to vote for it and then they'll be taken care of, given party funding when reelection comes around, etc.

I highly recommend following Justin Amash if you want to hear all about how it's broken, his twitter is quite informative, he also has a podcast although many of the episodes are not related directly to politics. Even if you disagree with some of his political stances, it's astounding to hear straight from a former house member just how bad it is right now. No time to read bills, no floor amendments allowed by the speaker, if you don't vote how the leaders want you to then you're never given any committee assignments (especially bad given there's no opportunity to offer amendments on the floor), etc. And it's not just one party, Ryan may have officially killed the floor amendments but Pelosi has done a stellar job keeping them dead.