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Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was "absolutely" committed to doing so.
House members are still negotiating important issues in the bill--whether it will provide taxpayer-funding for abortions, for example. Pelosi is pushing for a Saturday House vote, and a number of big changes will be introduced, likely less than 24 hours before the vote takes place (if in fact it does). The Rules Committee hasn't yet released its resolution, or rule, that must be passed before the bill can move from committee to the floor. The rule will set the terms of debate and determine what amendments are in order.
It seems likely that the rule will allow very few, if any, up-or-down votes on amendments on the House floor. Rather, the rule will include a series of amendments that will all be adopted at once if the rule passes.
On September 24, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that she was "absolutely" committed to putting the text of the final House bill online for 72 hours before the House votes:
TWS: Madam Speaker, do you support the measure to put the final House bill online for 72 hours before it's voted on at the very end?
PELOSI: Absolutely. Without question.
But tonight, when asked if Speaker Pelosi will leave the bill online for 72 hours after we see what's in the rule, Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly replied in an email: "No; [the] pledge was to have manager’s amendment online for 72 hours, and we will do that."
Apparently Pelosi's agreement to leave the "final" bill online "at the very end" of the process wasn't such a straightforward pledge.
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This is INSANE!
I wonder what kind of changes they are going to make that we will have no time to evaluate the real outcome of.
This is irresponsible and astounding.
If the people haven't even read and understood the changes who the heck can those who sign it? Most of those idiots still haven't bothered to read the bill as it was.
Americans have the right to know what the heck these people are going to sign into law.
1The Democrat Leadership seem bent on political suicide if it means passing their socialist one world agenda.
2If she let's us see it she knows we will protest and say it sucks. SO SURPRISE! you can't see it until its a done deal - kind of like a mail order bride. someone really needs to taint her botox with botulism.
3This seriously pisses me off. Not a single dem leader can be counted on to keep their word. I think we should start an email campaign to Pelosi accusing her of lying and trying to pass legislation that the public does not want.
4What I want to know, is why isn't this on 4.0? Maybe some other libs will actually begin to understand our angst when our "leaders" lie so easily, and it's because they think they can get away with it.
5Undave, Liberal 4.0 is home of the comatose, with not one shred of intellectual honesty in their collective body. They are Obama/Kos Kool Aid drinkers. The official unemployment rate hit 10.2? and another 190,000 private sector jobs lost in October according to DOL report just out, they also admit to an unemployment rate in excess of 17% if underemployed are included. No mention of the discouraged unemployed. The Democrats on the Hill are like the Brittish colonel from the "Bridge Over The River Kwai". The fact that if the bridge is completed Japanese troops and materials will be moved expeditiously to kill his own countries countries troops is completely lost to him. The health care and cap on trade are the Democrats "bridge"
610.2? = 10.2%
7.... and I am not surprised. Isn't this the way politics always works out?
8justanerd, that is the point it is the business as usual that cost the Republicans the House and Senate, now the Democrats have moved that disconnect exponentially. The independents are the ones that settle the elections. The Democrats have thrown those voters back to the Republicans. Are the republicans smart enough to hold on to those independents? Only time will tell.
9How many people think they can form a solid opinion of this bill AND confer with their constituents to see how they feel about it and then be back to vote on that basis withing 72hrs?
NONE.
I venture to say that NONE of them will bother trying to read it in its entirety, NONE of them will bother asking/explaining/conferring with their constituents, and NONE of them will bother considering the real ramifications of being so irresponsible.
NONE of them will take responsibility for any outcome based upon how the vote goes. I wonder how many of these idiots will again simply vote "present" which is actually no vote at all. I predict that many who do this will lose their seats in the next election.
10how many could read war and peace in 72 hours, and that novel is not nearly as complicated.
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