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One of the senators objecting to the bill, Mike Lee of Utah, noted it had grown from 160 pages to more than 2,300.

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"The American people understand that when you're throwing around hundreds of billions of dollars at a time, you really have an obligation to know what on earth we're voting for," Mr. Lee said near midnight on Friday morning. "We don't know that. We can't credibly maintain that. We certainly shouldn't pretend to be competent to understand everything that's in here."

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