Posted on 03/11/2010 3:49:03 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion
Rep. Paul Ryan says that Democrats are ready to ram a "shell" health care bill through the Budget Committee, on which he serves as ranking Republican member, to use as a vehicle to impose national health care.
In a phone interview with TAS Thursday afternoon, Ryan said that he expects Democrats to begin the complex process on Monday, under which they would have the Budget Committee approve a phantom bill by midnight, which they will then send over to the Rules Committee. At that point, the Rules Committee will strip out all of the language in the phantom bill, and insert the changes to the Senate bill that Democrats have negotiated.
"They don't have the votes right now, but they're creating the vehicle so that they can airdrop in whatever changes they want," Ryan said.
He said that Republicans are outnumbered 2-to-1 on his committee and don't have the votes to stop the bill there. Democrats will also be able to prevent Republicans from offering any amendments, but GOP members will be able to offer "motions to instruct" the Rules Committee, that Ryan said will be used highlight problems with the "unprecedented" step that Democrats are taking.
He said he expected Democrats to dust off last year's health care bills from the Education and Labor and Ways and Means Committees, to use as the vehicle for reconciliation changes.
He also warned against focusing too much on the reconciliation process in the Senate. "Reconciliation is a distraction," he said. "Once the House passes the Senate bill we have the massive new entitlement."
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From last summer to this spring, this has been one heck of a ride. I'd find it great theater, except that I have to live with the results.
PHANTOM:
a phantom is a ghost that resembles a dark gastly figure.
I read that earlier on Drudge today too, Eva. I commented on it above but had no response.
There is a thread about it now. Frankly, it gets confusing to me with all this back and forth!
Yes, I just checked and the article is still on Drudge, from Bloomberg. It says that they cannot change the bill until it is passed. So, what’s up?
[I believe they will also attempt to rig the audiences of any campiagn debates or simply refuse to debate challengers]
Some mentioned that on that Ohio town hall you pinged to.
Look how Obama rigged things, even with the Military.
I have no idea! I don't keep up on this as well as many and am always hesitant to make forceful comments, lol. Like you, I read that today and thought, ‘great’, then come here and it's a whole different story??
I also heard on FOX this afternoon that nothing would be done on the health care until Obama returns from some trip because he has to sign the bill before it can be changed in anyway. I was only half listening, but I think that they said that they were going to try to get the house to pass the bill and then give 72 hours for everyone to discuss the changes and vote again, but that Pelosi did not yet have the votes.
Good question.
Pew research might have an answer.
Most of me suspects not.
Folks don’t seem to change until they “have” to.
Thx.
.
Tea Party groups need to “visit” en masse the Beltway and hometown residences of all the democrat Congressional members
Like the ACORN and SEIU did in CT to AIG execs
Drive them over the cliff and down onto the rocky surf below
They are one and the same. They believe that their being in total control is what is best. Everything flows from that.
INDEED.
And, . . . read the our leader over the 100 years in my tagline ref:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81
Read even 10% of them.
You heard just what I heard. They talked of it on Special Report and even on O’Reilly.
Obama has his two week trip coming up and they said it couldn’t be done before then, if then.
Toooooooooo true, GlockR, imho.
The globalist Masonic judges in so many positions . . .
Sigh.
God alone is our refuge and hope.
Well, I don’t think that will happen.
AMEN! AMEN!
INDEED.
READ even part of our leaders’ quotes ref’d here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81
I think there is MORE of a gap now . . . in some respects.
REad even a portion of our leaders’ quotes ref’d here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81
They have contingencies for mad as hell.
WWIII and the extermination camps.
They are gleeful for excuses to reduce the population en masse.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81
INDEED.
A GRAB FOR PERPETUAL POWER.
READ, PLEASE EVEN PART OF THIS POST:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81
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