It's a great question. Unfortunately, a lot of the analysis that the House is getting isn't great. Here's the backgrounder the sponsors of the bill provided -- http://intelligence.house.gov/backgrounder-rogers-ruppersber...

Call your Congressperson and tell them that you're concerned. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is helping coordinate the effort -- http://cyberspying.eff.org/.

(btw - I'm the author of the post and my name was actually just under the "guest blogger" byline)

So a guest blogger can read this bill and come up with an analysis that shows significant consequences to this bill. Significant in the sense that the public would object, and that it could lead to things generally considered Un-American like lack of ability to redress grievances, lack of due process, and letting private entities enforce laws.

Why can't the US House of Representative have similarly clear analyses presented to them? And if they do, why aren't these analyses public, and why don't the Representatives vote the obvious way (against in this case) on such legislation? I don't get it.