TIL Funnyjunk still exists <| sep |> When the politicians say we don ' t know what ' s in the bill , we have to pass it to find out you should probably know its going to go poorly . After all this time , I was really hoping that people would realize that this Nancy Pelosi quote was taken severely out of context . p a r t i s a n p o s t p e l o s i d e f e n d s h e rinfamoushealthcareremark 20120620 gJQAqch 6 qVblog . html ? utmterm . b 8 d 3313 d 5387 At the time Pelosi said these words , the House had passed a health care bill , but the Senate had not . She was pushing Senators to move forward with a bill so both Houses could hold a debate and reconcile the two pieces of legislation . If the Senate didn ' t pass its bill , how would the House members know what the negotiating terms would be ? She was not saying that legislators should pass a bill without reading it . As some one who was studying health care in college at the time and was completely glued to the process of reform , that bill was one of the most scrutinized pieces of legislation in modern American history . If you didn ' t know what was in it then you weren ' t paying attention .