“It’s very unusual for resolutions like this to come immediately to the floor where you have 100 senators voting on it,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said this week. “Because frankly, not all of us are as up to speed on the details of this, or what the unintended impact might be …”

Cornyn pleaded with colleagues to be patient, to let the measure go through the committee process, where members with expertise would have time to evaluate its consequences, or at least to read it.