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To: EternalVigilance
After the senate passes a version and the two bills go to committee, and the committee pass the bill, is there a floor vote on the combined bill?
10 posted on 11/09/2009 12:49:57 PM PST by 2001convSVT ("Only Property Owners that pay taxes should have the right to Vote")
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To: 2001convSVT
After the senate passes a version and the two bills go to committee, and the committee pass the bill, is there a floor vote on the combined bill?

Yes but even more so than what you supposed. The Senate has to pass a bill that ROUGHLY matches the one from the House. Conferees from both bodies then meet to create a single bill which is then voted up or down in each body. So there are 4 more votes (including the committee vote) before it COULD get to Obama's desk.and in order to meet Obama's most recent goal, this has to be done in about 6 weeks before the end of the year deadline. Be sure to let your Senators know how you feel about this operation.

20 posted on 11/09/2009 1:04:04 PM PST by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: 2001convSVT

“is there a floor vote on the combined bill?”

Yes.
But it will be a one-shot up-or-down vote. And given how the leadership keeps playing fast and loose with legislative process, inserting things at the last minute, etc. one can expect a very different bill to come back.

It’s all a total sham. The leaders will stuff whatever they can get away with into the sausage.


32 posted on 11/09/2009 6:25:30 PM PST by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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