White House does not publish a bill.
I understand that.
Mike Darancette wrote:
Boehner should announce that he'll put it up for a vote no sooner than 72 hours after the White House publishes the bill..
White House does not publish a bill.
The "normal" process for an administration that wants to show leadership is that they write a bill (often with input from some Representatives and Senators) and take that bill to a Representative and a Senator (sometimes more than one of each) to sponsor the legislation. The bill then goes in "the hopper" and proceeds much like any other bill.
My point is that Mr. Boehner missed a big opportunity last night. He could have taken his microphone, at the end of the speech last night, and said this:
Remarks Speaker Boehner should have made last night:The opportunity to do that in front of the cameras of the national media has been lost. Still, that should be his first words out of his mouth when he calls the House to order this morning.
“Mr. President, you’ve asked us repeatedly to ‘pass the bill’ tonight. In an effort to move this forward with the highest priority, I’d like to have the first reading of this bill into the record while we have everyone here in the chamber tonight. If Ms. Pelosi wants to sponsor the bill, that's fine. If nobody else will step forward, I’ll even offer sponsor it myself to move the process along.”
The rest of my comment stands. Anything this important should be published for at least 3 days before the House votes on it.