Speed-reading the health care reform bill?

PolitiFact by Angie Drobnic Holan | Oct. 8, 2009 (News Analysis)

With the massive health care bill about to come to the House and Senate, members of Congress are arguing about a reading assignment: How long should they have to read a bill that could be 1,000 pages long?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has promised 72 hours -- three days -- for a final bill to be available online before a vote. Centrist Democratic Senators have asked Majority leader Harry Reid for guarantees of 72 hours for bills in the Senate. Full Story »

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by Priscilla L. Davis - Dec. 6, 2009

It dispels the spin of the Republican who are in my opinion is stalling the passage of any bill. My only disagreement about the article is that it did not point out that during the Republican control of both houses, they routinely put bills out in the middle of the night. While the article stated this fact it simply said this was done during the "pass eight year" and with not enough emphasis on the hippocracy of the Republicans demands on the Democrats! That point is crucial to the entire augument!!