“ Last October, in a previous bout over spending bills, Mr. Clinton won almost every round, from the standpoint of both politics and policy. The Republicans were bruised, and Congress wound up lashing together a 4,000-page omnibus spending bill replete with billions for pet projects. Almost no member of Congress read that bill before it was passed.”
— from a 1999 congressional budget story in The New York Times
The US Congress — not reading bills since before it was cool.
