Posted on 11/06/2009 12:42:58 AM PST by kcvl
Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was "absolutely" committed to doing so.
House members are still negotiating important issues in the bill--whether it will provide taxpayer-funding for abortions, for example. Pelosi is pushing for a Saturday House vote, and a number of big changes will be introduced, likely less than 24 hours before the vote takes place (if in fact it does). The Rules Committee hasn't yet released its resolution, or rule, that must be passed before the bill can move from committee to the floor. The rule will set the terms of debate and determine what amendments are in order.
It seems likely that the rule will allow very few, if any, up-or-down votes on amendments on the House floor. Rather, the rule will include a series of amendments that will all be adopted at once if the rule passes.
On September 24, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that she was "absolutely" committed to putting the text of the final House bill online for 72 hours before the House votes:
TWS: Madam Speaker, do you support the measure to put the final House bill online for 72 hours before it's voted on at the very end?
PELOSI: Absolutely. Without question.
But tonight, when asked if Speaker Pelosi will leave the bill online for 72 hours after we see what's in the rule, Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly replied in an email: "No; [the] pledge was to have manager’s amendment online for 72 hours, and we will do that."
Apparently Pelosi's agreement to leave the "final" bill online "at the very end" of the process wasn't such a straightforward pledge.
Pelosi, you are SOOOOOOOOO being used!
You get the idea that the Dems wish Wikipedia existed when they drew up the Constitution, so they could post instant revisions round the clock to suit their purposes.
It seems like the liberals are damned and determined to stuff this crap down our throats!
And we are supposed to trust them! /s
Pelosi is a lying bwitch!
I hope the blue dogs who are going to vote for this crap are going to enjoy that walk off a short pier lead by Nancy pants.
I don’t think they really understand just how angry people are over this.
Marxists are known more for deceit than for honesty.
These people (Dems) see us all as the sheepeople and they are the steeple, and they can stick us any time and any place!
This is what has happened to the whole banking and credit card industry (they can revise the contracts daily, to the issuers advantage)to its own self destruction!
Charley Rangel?
Looks like the swamp has turned into a real cess pool, with no chance of being drained. . . . . . . . . . .
So this is just another lie. . . . . .
This is the best thing about dogmatic socialism, it doesn’t matter what the masses think. Just bend over and spread your cheeks and we the gov will do the rest.
She is a snake.
—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
I wonder how much more We the People will take from these lying traitors.....
she doesn’t have the votes, therefore she will not have a vote Saturday.
When, as now, lawmakers and law enforcers are also the primary law breakers in our society, we can only hope, pray, and wait for them to stumble. When they misstep, which they will, we will need to turn society upside down, putting those now on the top on the bottom, and hopefully arresting and trying them for treason.
Congress members of conscience *might* stop Obama’s marxist agenda, but they and we will have to be prepared for the Obama thugocracy to try everything imaginable to push forward even if three hundred seven million Americans oppose them. And “if they bring a knife,”....
The 111th Congress just isn’t any kind of a legitimate body of lawmakers at all. How much legislation has it sneaked past Americans this year?? When even the lawmakers don’t bother to read it, how can it be “law” at all?
They keep sending her back.
Perhaps Pelosi will blame it on the CIA and proclaim that it was not her that lied about posting the bill up for 72 hours, but that it was in fact, the CIA that had lied about it....
Ohh, I'm sure some Republican Rep or Intern could manage to get a hold of a copy and post it online just to demonstrate to Pelosi that the Republicans really don't care what she "won't allow"...
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