Don't feel bad if you haven't because virtually no one else has read it either.It is a 1200 page monstrosity of a bill that Stacy McCain points out is about as transparent as cotton candy:Here's the timeline [for HR 2454]:Introduced - 5/15/09Reported with amendments out of Energy & Commerce - 6/5/09Discharged by Education & Labor and Foreign Affairs Committees - 6/5/09Discharged by Financial Services, Science & Technology, Transportation, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Ways & Means Committees - 6/19/09Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 90 - 6/19/09 (This version is 946 pages)Submitted to House Rules Committee - 6/22/09, 4:22pm (This version is 1,201 pages)So, where along the line does the bill suddenly expand by 300 pages? According to the New York Times, the various committee chairs held behind the scenes meetings and hashed out a compromise with no allowance for public input. (What lobbyists were involved in those meetings?) And now we are expecting a...(Read Full Post)