CNS NEWS.com: "WHEN ASKED WHERE THE CONSTITUTION AUTHORIZES CONGRESS TO ORDER AMERICANS TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE, PELOSI SAYS, 'ARE YOU SERIOUS?'" by Matt Cover (SNIPPET: "Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a "serious question." "You can put this on the record," said Elshami. "That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question."") (October 23, 2009)
YES WE CAN read S.1796:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-1796
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:s1796pcs.txt.pdf