Here is how it was designed to work: when your elected representatives failed to read legislation before the vote, you called them out for not doing their job, and then voted them out. Both houses of congress set their own rules (constitutionally). Again, if a member votes for rules that do not represent the interests of the people who elected them, they get fired by the people via the ballot box.

Here's how we get around that accountability mechanism: national political parties. We now expect members of congress to vote according to a national party agenda. Voters vote party, not candidate. Few look at the votes or read the bills being voted. Most rely on party "information sources" to inform them as to what is in the bill and who did what and the media distributed story is seldom aligned with the actual content of bills or what is captured in the congressional record.

It is impractical for we the people to keep track of all the stuff going on in congress. That too is directly counter to the design. Full time legislators are counter to the principles of our representative republic. Congress is required to meet once per year, with only one mandatory job which is to produce a budget (a job they fail to do BTW). Think about it. If congress met once or twice or even a 4 times a year, how much could they do? Not so much that we couldn't audit their work. And then hold them to account come the next election.

But by making it a full time job they create such an immense volume that it is no longer possible see it all. You can dig in to specific legislation, when you know about it, and see the record. It's a lot of work, and always a small part of the whole debacle. And of course most of what ends up as law is concocted behind closed doors and not created by those we elect. Again, the national party is the means to completely circumvent the intent and design of how congress should operate.