Today I am still, just a bill!
Could mean they think they have the votes...
Maybe they have enough votes to pass the Senate bill outright.
Today I am still, just a bill!
They must have the votes and probably had them all along.
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Democrats in committee confirming they are abandoning deem and pass. Will hold separate votes on reconciliation & senate bill.
Could also be a LIE. Waxman himself said they will be voting for the senate bill - it was a tricky lie. I would not listen to the Dems or the WaPo. They are playing with the meaning of words.
So....House will vote on the EXACT Senate bill already passed?
I don’t see how they have the votes to pass the senate bill. Everyone in the house knows that the senate is never going to pass the reconciliation bill.
They are in serious disarray.
Unfortunately, this probably also means that they're confident in their whip count.
Either you are voting for the Senate bill or you aren't.
It’s like being a terminally ill man strapped to his gurney close to death, laying there watching his children battle each other over his earthly goods while ignoring him as he takes his last dying breaths…
An intolerable state of affairs indeed.
Kinda makes me wish we hadn’t screamed quite so loudly - if they pass it on an up-or-down vote it’ll become law without that hook for a possible court challenge.
Don’t you love that not one of these thugs has a thought of what the American people want. We seem to have never crossed their minds.
However, if there was anytime in the last 50 years that Demos would lie 24/7 this is it.
Keep a watch on them and keep calling.
The December Senate bill is very stinky and corrupt and will become law if they have the votes. The companion reconciliation bill is just a fantasy, and political theater that the Senate Dims will be reluctant to invest much effort in passing. The Dims desperately want the public to have health care amnesia so they can move on to other disastrous distractions such as amnesty.
At least with the Senate bill, the Dims will have a big “kick me” sign plastered on their butts.
So — could the RATS do this:
1. House Pass the Senate bill
2. House Pass their reconciliation bill
3. The Senate bill goes to Obama, who sits on it while,
4. Senate debates and ultimately passes the House reconciliation bill, which then
5. Goes to Obama who then signs both, in essence simultaneously.
Using Obama to buffer the first bill would give assurance to the weak-kneed Dems that the Senate bill won’t become law without their changes.
No, the Washington Examiner piece is pretty clear; Waxman wants no part of “deem and pass.” I think a lot of Dems are getting cold feet over the tactic and will scramble to find the votes in the next 24hrs.
Also remember, in the Senate Orin Hatch warned Dems that Republicans in the Senate would use two different rules that would send the bill to the House again and require a straight up or down vote.
Yancy
.. but they’ll pass it with Satan’s approval.
But House Democrats say privately they could score a public relations coup by killing this strategy and doing things the old-fashioned way.
from FOX blog
Yeah, RIGHT. /s