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  • Health-Reform Vote Deserves A Reasonable Process [WaPo Editorial Calls Pelosi Maneuver "Unseemly"]

    03/16/2010 6:11:00 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 23 replies · 632+ views
    Washington Post ^ | March 16, 2010
    Health-Reform Vote Deserves A Reasonable Process March 16, 2010 WE UNDERSTAND the administration's sense of urgency on health-care reform. But what is intended as a final sprint threatens to turn into something unseemly and, more important, contrary to Democrats' promises of transparency and time for deliberation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Monday that she is leaning toward a parliamentary maneuver under which the House would vote on a package of changes to the Senate-approved reform bill, and the underlying Senate bill would then be "deemed" to have passed, even though the House had never voted on it. That may...