Pelosi might attempt to pass oBaMaCaRe without having members actually vote on it!

Pelosi reviews ways to tackle vote on health


Published: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 15, 2010 at 10:46 p.m.


WASHINGTON - After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday she might instead attempt to pass the measure without having members actually 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 measure. It is one of three options Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote.

She said she prefers it because the move would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the bill.


Republicans quickly condemned the strategy, framing it as an effort to avoid responsibility for passing the bill, and some suggested Pelosi's plan would be unconstitutional.


House leaders have worked for days to round up support for the legislation, but the Senate measure has drawn fierce opposition from a broad spectrum of members.
Anti-abortion Democrats say it would permit federal funding for abortion, liberals oppose its tax on high-cost insurance plans, and Republicans say the measure overreaches and is too expensive.


Some senior lawmakers have acknowledged in recent days that Democrats lack the votes for passage. Pelosi, however, predicted Monday that she would deliver. She said that House Democrats have yet to decide how to approach the vote. But she added that any strategy involving a separate vote on the Senate bill "isn't too popular," and aides said the leadership is likely to bow to the wishes of its rank-and-file.


As House leaders looked for a path that could get the Senate legislation through the chamber and onto Obama's desk, conservatives warned that Pelosi's use of deem-and-pass in this way would run afoul of the Constitution.


Meanwhile, Democrats were struggling Monday to put the finishing touches on the package of fixes. Under reconciliation rules, it is protected from filibusters and could pass the Senate with only 50 votes, but can include only provisions that would affect the budget.


Democratic leaders learned over the weekend that they may not be able to include a number of favored items, including some Republican proposals to stem fraud in federal health programs and a plan to weaken a new board that would be empowered to cut Medicare payments.


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Comment by 7R33SandR0P3S on March 16, 2010 at 11:34pm
Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution, however, expressly states that for any bill to beome law “the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by the yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively.” After that, under the Constitution, the president must either sign the bill or hold it for ten days (not counting Sundays), after which it will become law unless Congress adjourns in the interim.


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