An odd admission by Waxman.

House Democrats were worried that their Republican counterparts would “stall” the vote on an amendment to Rep. Henry Waxman’s “climate change” bill, which doesn’t actually change the climate, even if you believe in that sort of nonsense, by forcing it to be read aloud first. So the Democrats countered by — and here’s your tax dollars at work — having a Congressional clerk skilled at speed-reading do so.

Mary Ham notes the real joke (hint: it’s on we consumers):

Heaven forfend! Who would want to make the committee, which is supposed to understand the bill, actually listen to the contents of all 900 pages of it?

Even if the reading of the bill is a partisan “stall tactic” on the part of the Republicans, intellectually honest folks who want government to function responsibly would have to admit it’s a pretty benign one—beneficial, even. The brouhaha over reading the bill is an implicit, disturbing admission that—yes!— your Congress will enact a 900-page bill heavily regulating the fundamental engine of the American economy and your life in unprecedented ways without ever having read it. Feel good about that?

No, not at all. Such shananagans would get you or me reprimanded at our job. But it’s just another day in Congress.