Posted on 10/07/2009 5:19:25 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper
Reid ‘Likely’ to Make Entire Health Bill an Amendment to Unrelated Tax Bill That House Passed in March
(CNSNews.com) -- A senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told CNSNews.com that it is “likely” that Reid will use H.R. 1586—a bill passed by the House in March to impose a 90-percent tax on bonuses paid to employees of certain bailed-out financial institutions—as a “shell” for enacting the final version of the Senate’s health care bill, which Reid is responsible for crafting.
Under the procedure, the substance of House Resolution 1586 would be removed and replaced with the entire Senate health care package. The maneuver would initially require the support of 60 senators to vote for cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 1586 (i.e., end debate on the congressional procedure and move forward).
If Reid wins 60 votes, then debate begins on his health care package. Reid could then decide to block all amendments and attempt to get a vote on the entire package.
However, a senator could filibuster the final vote, requiring another 60-vote majority to move forward. But if Reid decides to allow any amendments, each amendment could be filibustered, requiring a 60-vote majority to move to a final vote on each of them. An amendment that has the support of more than 50 but less than 60 senators could end up stopping the bill if neither side backs down. But if Reid is able to structure the debate so that all 60 senators who caucus with the Democrats stick with the party on cloture votes, he can pass the bill and send it to back to the House--where it originated as an entirely different bill in substance.
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You KNEW this was coming. Watch any defense spending bill, my bet is that they will put it right alongside the spending for the troop increase. Treasonous bastards that they are.
war is coming
It’s all a shell game, and they are playing with our lives.
Crazy Harry is NOT AN AMERICAN!
Seems to me this was the process they used to get the first Porkulus package through the Senate, too.
It’s underhanded crap like this that fuels the anger of the citizenry. So much for transparency and ethics. So much for draining the swamp. The libtards are dancing on the shredded remnants of the Constitution, and the pubbies can’t find the stones to push back.
It’s time to take back the country.
hmmmm - I translate that to mean it WILL be attached to a tax bill.
Yes, attach this to an unconstitutional bill of attainer and signed by an unconstitutional Pres__ent. A nation of law will become what the Fascists want, a nation of partisan fiat.
BUMP
Rush warned of this last week.
More slippery shenanigans from a slippery idiot
This doesn’t seem likely to work.
SOMEWHERE in the Constitution it states the government can be overthrown if it doesn’t follow the will of the people ?
That’s in the Declaration, not the Constitution (unfortunately).
They can do this with a bill the House has already passed? Just go back and substitute whatever they want without a further vote?
My question, too. You wouldn’t think that this could be kosher.
NEVADA! Please get RID of this Idiot!
Yes, they can do this kind of stuff. All the more reason the GOP needs to remain the party of “NO!”.
I doubt he has all 60.
If the House were to then vote on the bill as passed by the Senate without amending it, it could be sent directly to the president for his signature without going through a House-Senate conference committee and another round of votes in each chamber.
Hard to see this happening in the House.
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