How did Phil Gramm sneak in a 200+ page amendment to a bill?

[endthewar]

I've heard that the Gramm bill passed in the 1990s is at least partially responsible for this financial crisis. However, I've heard people say that he "sneaked" it into another much larger bill, even though it was over 200 pages long. Can someone make sense of this for me? How do you sneak in a 200+ page document to make it legislation?

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Ask Eli Lilly how they did it.

http://www.foundationforhealthchoice.com/vaccinetimespostarticles.html

[endthewar]

2. So is it pretty much the lobbyists buying out members of Congress?

And depending on the American people not really noticing and not caring?

[ColbertWatcher]

4. They don't have to buy all of them, just enough of them. n/t

[Pab Sungenis]

3. When the bill you're slipping it into is 1,400 pages long already

you have a better chance of getting away with it. He put it into a year-end omnibus spending bill.

[pnwmom]

5. And he probably slipped it in at the very last moment -- a favorite tactic

of the Rethugs.

[Lasher]

6. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000

This legislation was thought dead but Phil Gramm slipped it into a must-pass omnibus spending bill in December 2000. Few people in Congress or in the Administration had an opportunity to review this legislation. This is how we were blessed with the Enron Loophole, but even more importantly the legislation specifically prohibited regulation of credit default swaps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000

Arguably, this was as important as The Gramm-Leach- Bliley Act of 1999, which dismantled protections of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.