President Barack Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus was passed by the House on Friday. Now I’m no politician, but how are all the members of the House supposed to read the 1,071 pages of the bill? That’s an 8-inch paper stack (sorry tree).

So how long would it take the average person to read the economic stimulus? First we need to know the average reading speed, which is 200 words per minute (wpm). Now we just need to know how many words are in the document.

This is a long, tedious process that you probably shouldn’t do. So I took the liberty of doing it for you (you’re welcome).

There are 207,421 words in the economic stimulus bill.

The average person, reading at 200 wpm would take 17 hours and 17 minutes to read the entire bill (without blinking or bathroom breaks).

You can see the latest updates on the stimulus package on the following website: ReadTheStimulus.org.