Everyone Surprised by the Senate Passing Permanent DST. Especially the Senators

They have staffs whose job it is to read the bills. They work late hours, especially when one of those massive omnibus bills is on the table.

Their staffs still don't have the time to do this for every bill, so they'll often delegate the work to the committees. If their partisans on the committee recommend the bill, they'll probably think it's OK. If there is something of significance to them in particular, they'll get a heads up.

Cases like this are, as TFA notes, extremely unusual. Somebody screwed up. Almost certainly somebody in the minority whip's office, but a lot of other people who were supposed to serve as circuit breakers also failed.

It's not entirely unlike code review on a big team. They split up the work into areas of expertise. You'll put in varying levels of effort depending on how much it's likely to matter. Here, it sounds like a lot of others were expecting somebody else to put more effort into the review, and it'll take a few days to figure out just who screwed up worst/first.

"We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."

We think of American laws and systems to be fair - because we're told that from childhood.

American laws are anything but easy and fair. It is only obvious once you have to deal with it personally.

How many honest, hard working kitten shredders would it put out of business!?

Well, the extra hour of sunshine might cause the curtains to fade and the cows might not know when to get milked -- at least according to former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen in 1992:

https://www.spectator.com.au/2017/01/sunshine-state/

>Anyone want to sign my "Anti kitten shredding" motion?

Before that, a ban on kitten juggling[0] is needed.

[0] https://cinemacats.com/the-jerk-1979/