The Institute for Energy Research has come out with some helpful detail on the extra thousand pages larded on to Lieberman-Warner to bring about its current incarnation, the House-passed Waxman-Markey.

In an e-mail announcing it, IER notes that last year’s Lieberman-Warner bill “was a mere 344-pages,” — felled thanks in great part to the illuminating diagram produced by the U.S. Chamber (ah, so that’s what got the rent-seekers so upset) which detailed the cap-and-trade labyrinth.

But compared to Waxman-Markey’s 1,428 pages, Lieberman-Warner seems like a simple bill (Kerry-Boxer currently tips the scales at 821 pages). At most, Waxman-Markey’s cap-and-trade provisions total just over half of the bill. The other half of the bill is the most repressive package of new taxes, wealth transfers and obstacles to economic activity that a Congress has ever assembled.

So, to help out, the two-page summary is here, and you can find a PDF of the full analysis here.