Posted on 03/11/2010 5:37:29 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
Would House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democratic leaders try to cram the Senate version of Obamacare through the House without actually having a recorded vote on the bill?
Not only is the answer yes, they would, they have figured out a way to do it, according to National Journal's Congress Daily:
"House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill, the chairwoman said Tuesday.
"Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version.
"Slaughter has not taken the plan to Speaker Pelosi as Democrats await CBO scores on the corrections bill. 'Once the CBO gives us the score, we'll spring right on it,' she said."
Each bill that comes before the House for a vote on final passage must be given a rule that determines things like whether the minority would be able to offer amendments to it from the floor.
In the Slaughter Solution, the rule would declare that the House "deems" the Senate version of Obamacare to have been passed by the House. House members would still have to vote on whether to accept the rule, but they would then be able to say they only voted for a rule, not for the bill itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Oy! Why don’t they just bring a bunch of AK-47s into Congress and then have their vote? (For everyone’s own good of course). ;-)
Making it up as you go.
....funny how they will scrutinize ways to skirt the Constitution, but will not read a bill before voting for it.
Congress has gone rogue!
[In the Slaughter Solution, the rule would declare that the House “deems” the Senate version of Obamacare to have been passed by the House. House members would still have to vote on whether to accept the rule, but they would then be able to say they only voted for a rule, not for the bill itself.]
Go ahead, Rats. Make it even easier for the USSC to overturn this unpopular bill.
“House Democratic leaders”—Satan’s spawn.
“Pro-Choice Slaughter Begins Abortion Bloodbath in Congress”
Fascism...isn’t it just grand?
“Pro-Choice Slaughter: Abortion Bloodbath in Congress”
I can see a Democrat running for office now. Sure I voted on accepting that rule but I didn’t vote on the healthcare bill. What sleezes.... The Constitution says you have to vote on legislation as a yea or nea and it has to be recorded. Cast your votes you snivelling slimes and live with your vote!!
New every morning.... Just when I think I’ve heard it all - they come up with a new “scheme” - they really, really think we are stupid!!!
I’ve been keeping up with politics and the process since Reagan . . . this has got to be one of the nuttiest things I have ever heard. They have lost their ever lovin’ flippin’ minds over this health care bill.
Every day reading here and watching Fox, I am sickened with every new turn they take.
Democratic leaders
Now there’s a contradicion of terms!
Slaughter is the operative word.
If they do this, they are simply begging for a violent revolt. With this action, they will be declaring open war upon the citizens of this country. If they do this, our military is OBLIGATED to forcibly remove them from power as treasonous domestic enemies of the Constitution.
I’ve been saying for months that what has been happening in the USA is a actually a bloodless coup d’etat and our “government” is nothing more than a hostile, totalitarian thugocracy. Reading this latest plan of theirs merely proves me right.
Do these guys SERIOUSLY want an uprising in this nation?
Never in my relatively short life could I have thought that congress would have even considered such moves to shuffle a unpopular bill into law!
I would not count on that happening. By the time it got to the USSC, Obama may have appointed one or two more of his leftist buddies, possibly replacing more conservative judges.
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