Hoqw the fuck do you expect the congressmen to read bills that are literally hundreds or thousands of pages long? They get hundreds of them, too. They have them given to aides, who read them through and give them a summary. It isn;t like they look at the cover page and say "Ooh, pretty, Imma vote for dis wun!" I have yet to see someone thrown in jail and rot until they die because of the patriot act. You people can whine as long as you want to about freedoms being destroyed and such, but nothing of the sort has happened yet. One or Two people being treated unjustly < Hundreds of innocent people not being killed by radicals.