[narses]

So sue them. BTW, it was a revenue bill. But sue away.

[mojito]

If the Senate may take any bill passed by the House and insert any language it likes then Article I Section 7 has no meaning.

The Founders put it there for a reason.

I guess you think that the gutting of the Constitution and the subsequent destruction of our liberties is just fine.

[mojito]

And the Wellstone bill did not raise taxes on the American people.

It was a bill that required insurance companies to cover mental illness.

Indirectly, it is a tax on health insurance, so in the hair-splitting, parsing, weasel-word world, I suppose it is a “revenue bill.”

But to take that legislation, which only passed the House because it was an entirely different bill, then rewrite it so that it comprised something that had just gone down in flames, is a direct violation of both the letter and spirit of the Constitution.