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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday traded fire with Republicans over a procedural rule that would allow House members to pass sweeping health care changes without a direct up-or-down vote on the Senate-passed version of the legislation. Republicans are riveting their fire on the maneuver - which could marry Senate health care legislation that some of her members don't like with "fixes" that they do - as possibly their last chance to stop the nearly $1 trillion, 10-year plan as it nears a make-or-break vote as soon as this weekend. The vote promises to be extremely close, and Pelosi has...

Congressman David Dreier (R-San Dimas, CA), House Rules Committee Ranking Republican, is joining his Republican colleagues today in calling for an open and transparent process when the Rules Committee considers healthcare reform, including the presence of cameras so that the American people can see what kind of procedural gimmicks are being employed there. “We’ve been asking for months for cameras to be installed in the Rules Committee hearing room and now the American people understand why it’s so necessary,” Dreier said. “With proposals like the Slaughter Solution being embraced by Speaker Pelosi, the American people now understand, the Rules Committee...

As I understand it, if you "deem" Obamacare passed, then it's passed even though it has never been voted upon and passed. Therefore, 1. Let's "deem" our income tax paid this year. After all, if we deem it so, then it is so. 2. Let's "deem" our census papers filled out and returned. Again, deeming is doing. Short of going illegal, what legal protest could Americans use that would gain publicity and demonstrate our rejection of massive spending? Answer: the W-4, Withholding Form. Claim an amount of dependents that would require you to write a check for your taxes at...

The latest maneuvering by congressional Democrats to make their brand of health care reform a reality has a lot of Washington, D.C. insiders scratching their heads and unable to forecast what is around the bend when it comes to this legislation. But have the media completely dropped the ball and that is allowing those in power to circumvent constitutional process? According to Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., they have. She had some harsh words for the fourth estate on conservative talker Sean Hannity's March 16 radio show. (h/t Kevin Eder) "Well yeah and the other thing is treason media," Bachmann said....

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