House Preparing New Scheme To "Pass" Senate Obamacare Bill Without Voting on It.

The Lid/National Journal ^ | 3/10/2010 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

The Democrats in the House are working on an extraordinary break of parliamentary procedure that will make reconciliation look like a conciliatory gesture. It's called the Slaughter rule named after House Rules chair Louise Slaughter.

Each new bill that is voted on by the complete congress has it's own voting rules, Slaughter's scheme attempts to get the Senate version of Obamacare passed through the house without the house having to vote on it. The rule will state that once the house approves the "corrections" bill which will legislate the compromises between the two houses, the Senate bill will be passed also. This will allow congressmen who object to one or two clauses of the bill to avoid registering an official vote for the offending clause. Thus the Stupak crowd will be able to vote for the bill without having to support the Senate's pro-abortion clause.

[Venturer]

Sorry: I got lost there.

[OrioleFan]

America is about to get Slaughtered.

[Bryanw92]

>>It’s called the Slaughter rule

That’s the first time in 50 years that something is coming out of DC with a name that EXACTLY describes what it is.

[shove_it]

Pelousy must have kidnapped a close relative of the Parliamentarian in order to pull this off.

[ez]

So if you vote for the corrections bill that doesn’t fix abortion coverage, you are voting for abortion.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Slaughter.....What’s going to happen to every damn democrat who votes for this!

[Vaquero]

House Preparing New Scheme To "Pass" Senate Obamacare Bill Without Voting on It

and the flowers are still standing

[Man50D]

This only proves they don’t have the votes.

[unixfox]

UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

And we have 3 branches of government because...

[Always Right]

So they are passing the most comprehensive piece of legislation that impacts all Americans without a vote? 2010 is going to be a Dem blood bath.

[throwback]

Oh now I get it. There was another post here from the NRO, but I didn't understand the virtue of the turnkey vote. Really cute. Don't really understand how that would cover Stupak’s rear, though. Pro-life people aren't Obama voters, so hiding the vote isn't going to work on them. The name "Slaughter" rule sounds appropriate. Slaughter the unborn and our freedom in the same blow.

[driftdiver]

I thought they were going to use reconciliation last week?

[Freddd]

They are just going to ‘deem’ that it passed.

Better start burning up the phone lines...

[bestintxas]

The U.S Constitution is being shredded to pieces as we allow this to continue.

We do not even know if we a POTUS eligible to serve.

[BigEdLB]

So these Communists are doing their totalitarian thing.

To force this by a parliamentary maneuver is very very risky...
If you want a million or more people approaching the capital with torches, and ... etc... they can keep it up...

[SoCal Pubbie]

Funny you should bring up kidnapping. I'm wondering if the solution here is just to nab a few Congressman and keep them sequestered for their own safety for a while. Didn't Henry VIII pull that stunt when the Church was voting on his supremacy?

[Perdogg]

Where is the “corrections” bill?

[Perdogg]

They have to vote on the bill that comes out of conference first. There hasn’t been a bill.

[Oldpuppymax]

So all you have to vote for are the “corrections”, NOT the bill itself?? Sounds like the Chicago way.