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The question isn't how long they had to read the final version of the bill, the question is how long they had to read all of the components of the bill. If this final bill was only a 50 page modification to some draft that had been discussed for weeks, then it's really not that surprising.

Imagine if there was a commit log which could be inspected to see what had changed, rather than getting a 5000 page document with no indication.

If only they had the equivalent of `git diff`.

Side note, who mandates these time constraints? Why are seemingly arbitrary deadlines applied? If a bill can stand on its own, why rush it at all unless you intend to enable surreptitious changes that will hopefully be missed?

Pretty conductive for corruption.