Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute has this to say about the Senate health care bill that is being considered in the House.
This week will be the last stand for Obamacare, and the trickery
that Speaker Pelosi is concocting to get the 2,700-page Senate bill
through the House almost defies belief. It?s aptly called the
?Slaughter Strategy,? after Rep. Louise Slaughter (D., N.Y.), who
chairs the House Rules Committee.Under this scheme, House members would vote on a bill of amendments to the despised Senate bill, and the Senate bill would be ?deemed?
to have passed if this companion bill is approved. This is supposed to
inoculate House members, who could say they never actually voted for
the Senate bill.Former Speaker Newt Gingrich has the best line:
Last year, the House was passing bills without reading them. This year,
they?re passing bills without voting on them.If you pull out your copy of the U.S. Constitution, you will find that in Article 1, Section 7, it clearly states that the House and Senate have to pass a bill before it is sent to the president to be signed into law.
