Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has proposed the option of using a special rule that would allow the health care bill to be passed without an actual up and down, yea and nay vote from members of the House of Representatives. A budget reconciliation bill would make “fixes” desired by House democrats to the existing Senate version of health care legislation. If the House passes the special rule and the reconciliation bill, then their decision means the Senate version of health care would be “deemed” to have passed even though House members would not actually vote on the 2,074-page Senate health care bill.
Here is what the Constitution requires for passage of new legislation. This is Article I, section 7 of the Constitution. It states that both the House and Senate have to pass the legislation. It then goes to the President who can sign the bill making it law, or veto it. Now this is a key requirement of Congress. Quoting the Constitution, “In all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by 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.”
Now, maybe there is a provision of the Constitution that allows an exception. If that is the case, then don’t you think our lawmakers should explain it to us in plain English. Our elected officials work for us, and if they know of constitutional ways of doing things we average folk don’t, don’t you think that they either need to explain it in plain English to us, or cease and desist?
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richard Says:
June 8th, 2010 at 11:32 amVisit richard
Today’s (Jun
program sounded like it should have been aired a few months ago. But, on that subject, the drive to Marxist Medicine can be stopped if the House refuses to fund it, and de-funds any source the administration tries to “borrow” funding from.Remember, any House member can be fired five moonths from now.