So doesn't that also give the GOP House members the same witness testimony and subpoena power....inquiring minds seek to know.
The answer is certainly “NO!”. Certainly! ;)
So doesn’t that also give the GOP House members the same witness testimony and subpoena power....inquiring minds seek to know
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On DU, one of the Howler Monkeys was saying that no matter what, on Thursday the Dems must NOT VOTE in a way that would allow republicans the power to subpoena (except the HM misspelled subpoena).The “dangers” were said to exist in the evil republican penchant to make this all about Biden, Obama, and Hillary. Nooooooooooo!!! *eyeroll*
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Just like Nancy "deemed" that O'Care passed the House and handed that sloppy mess off to the Senate.
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OpEd: "Deem & pass" forced Obamacare past democratic process
If supporters of government health care couldn't summon the votes necessary to pass health-care reform through the democratic process, they would just bypass the democratic process.
In the House, a process called "deem and pass" was legislative tricker to enact legislation that does not have majority backing. It meant the House would pass the 2,700-page health-care bill without ever actually voting for it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it all when she said, in the final days of the debate, "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
Public outrage and the protests of both Republican and Democratic members compelled Speaker Pelosi to back away from the "deem and pass" strategy of passing the bill without actually voting on it. The ugly health-care debacle finally came to an end with final passage of the overhaul in the House on March 21, 2010. The minority party was completely excluded from the shaping of major reform legislation.
Source: Young Guns, by Reps. Ryan, Cantor & McCarthy, p. 97-99 , Sep 14, 2010