We Have to Pass the Bill So You Can Find Out What to Regret

We Have to Pass the Bill So You Can Find Out What to Regret

Composite / Getty ImagesI was elected to lead, not to read“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it,” then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said while Democrats were negotiating the Affordable Care Act.1Republicans feasted off that quote for years, arguing that it showed how rushed and thoughtless the process was behind Barack Obama’s signature legislation. A decade-plus later, they’re now adopting that very same approach whi…