And they passed it WHY???

If your question is why this bill was passed, being complicated and legalese and hard to understand, the short answer is "because that tends to be the case for any important bill".

On any large piece of legislation, the bill in question has seldom or never been read in detail by any of the legislators (or at best, "very few"). Certain sections will have been worked through by congressional staff (with summarized reports to their principals), and by Representatives and Senators who have a specific interest in that aspect, like the budget-hawks, or the pro-choice or pro-life enthusiasts.

The leadership will have been fairly thoroughly briefed and have read key sections, but reading the bill in its entirety and in detail? Naaahh. That is about it. And of course the leadership will have strategic reasons and partisan political reasons for pushing (or in this case, for the Republicans opposing) passage, which reasons, on both sides, color their perceptions of the bill's (un?)desirability.

Is it pretty? No. But that's the way you make sausage.

Dave Oesterreich