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Yankee06
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The "no vote" vote
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3/16/2010 1:02:11 AM
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-This health care bill is making me sicker and sicked!
-can any ethical person in a voting chamber agree with Pelosi on this one?
from teh Washington Post
House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it
By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.
Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers "deem" the health-care bill to be passed.
The tactic -- known as a "self-executing rule" or a "deem and pass" -- has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure. (Y-06: CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS RATIONALE?)
"It's more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know," the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday. "But I like it," she said, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill."
Republicans quickly condemned the strategy, framing it as an effort to avoid responsibility for passing the legislation, and some suggested that Pelosi's plan would be unconstitutional.
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Yankee06
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Ooooopss, sorry ....The "no vote" vote
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3/16/2010 1:04:49 AM
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Sorry everybody, I didn't realize GF had already posted this article in below thread.
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MAJ USA RET
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3/16/2010 11:08:41 AM
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Does anyone have any doubt why Congress' disapproval rate stands at 76 percent?
Nancy Pelosi has publicly said, "...we have to pass it to find out what it says." Even SHE does not know what's in this bill!
If Nancy Pelosi et al ram this heinous, inscrutable legislation through Congress, it should be challenged in the SCOTUS. I believe I read somewhere that certain Governors were prepared to do exactly that.
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