By not agreeing to bypass the reading of the bill. Each bill requires unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of the bill. All it would take is ONE person with guts to force the bill to be read.
So every last one of them screwed the process and us. Any one of them could have slowed this thing down and at least ensured that our “leaders” were not necessarily driving this country over the cliff with their eyes deliberately blindfolded.
Why wouldn’t ANYBODY require it to be read? Cruz?
Maybe the requirement to read it aloud and the waiver don’t apply to amendments, but only to the final vote? Just a guess.