We've been baited. And here's the switch, from a Washington Post news alert:
House Democratic leaders say they will take a separate vote on the Senate health care bill, rejecting an earlier, much-criticized strategy that would have permitted them to "deem" the measure passed without an explicit vote.
The Hill has more:
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) won't use the tactic of deem and pass for healthcare reform.
Instead there will be two separate votes, one on the Senate bill and one on the reconciliation bill.
Engel said that Pelosi told a whip meeting Saturday that members should be proud of their "yes" vote because it is as historic as the social security vote.
This is good news for the Constitution and transparency in government. I'm not sure if its good news for defeating Obamacare. Also, Rep Virginia Foxx says that the Manager's Amendment has just been provided to the GOP.
If anyone didn’t think that is was high time to disband the illegal irs before now, maybe they will get the message now!
FUNP
I believe the lawsuits will challenge the constitutionality of the Federal govt “mandating” we MUST purchase a product/service.
Dave Camp is doing a masterful job of breaking it down. Some of the highlights:
• IRS agents verify if you have “acceptable” health care coverage;
• IRS has the authority to fine you up to $2,250 or 2 percent of your income (whichever is greater) for failure to prove that you have purchased “minimum essential coverage;”
• IRS can confiscate your tax refund;
• IRS audits are likely to increase;
• IRS will need up to $10 billion to administer the new health care program this decade;
• IRS may need to hire as many as 16,500 additional auditors, agents and other employees to investigate and collect billions in new taxes from Americans; and
• Nearly half of all these new individual mandate taxes will be paid by Americans earning less than 300 percent of poverty ($66,150 for a family of four.)
IRS budget would have to grow by 10 billion and that is NOT included in the CBO estimate.
A full copy of Rep Camp's report on the IRS can be found here.
It could mean that she doesn’t have the votes or that when Cardoza said he would not vote for deem and pass, she realized she couldn’t go down that path.