Is 46 hours and 8 minutes enough time to read a 3,417-page bill? Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) thinks it is.

Last night before the Senate voted on the legislation, Durbin criticized Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) for suggesting lawmakers weren’t given enough time to consider the mammoth omnibus spending bill.

For this Senator to suggest on the floor that we are sneaking this bill in, that people have not had a chance to see it, I would just say to the Senator from South Carolina: Welcome to the world of the Internet. This bill has been posted since 12:15 a.m. Monday morning on the Internet for your perusal. That is early to get up, I understand. It is an early time to be reading the bill. But, please, do not come to the floor and suggest that this is a mystery bill which no one has seen. For 2 days, this has been posted on the Internet. You have had your chance. Every Senator has had a chance.

DeMint’s office wondered if that feat was even possible. It is — assuming you read nearly 1 pages of the bill every minute for 46 hours and 8 minutes, take no bathroom breaks and don’t eat or sleep.

Here’s the exchange caught on video: