“There’s the need to write it, the need to read it, the need to understand it, the need to score it, the need for it to be `real,’ the need for it to be processed and supported by each side’s base, the need to assemble the necessary votes,” said GOP lobbyist Eric Ueland, a former longtime Senate aide.
You’re kidding me right? I thought the goal was to pass the bill so you could see what’s in it.