Stealth legislation
In the pantheon of great lines suitable for induction into Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 2010 comment about Obamacare: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
While that seemed outrageous and even comical to many at the time it has become an all-too familiar pattern for legislators who focus more on TV appearances, fundraising and their re-elections
