Pelosi: Controversial tactic an 'option' for moving healthcare

[cal04]

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/86857-pelosi-says-use-of-controversial-tactic-an-option-on-healthcare

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leaving the door open on using a controversial procedure to move healthcare through the House.

The process would allow the House to “deem” the Senate bill passed when it votes on a package of changes to that legislation, perhaps as early as this weekend.

The procedure involves crafting a rule allowing for consideration of a reconciliation “fixers” bill that deems the Senate bill already approved by the House. Aides to the Speaker said the option is “under consideration.”


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“When we get our CBO score and our decisions from the Senate Parliamentarian, when we have the substance, then we will decide on the process,” Pelosi said.

“But that will be one option,” she said when asked about a rule that declares the Senate bill considered by the House. “There are others.”

[Romulox]

1. What contortions they go through for their insurance industry bosses! nt

[emulatorloo]

4. If the insurance industry bosses wanted this, the Republicans would be voting for it in droves n/t

[gratuitous]

2. Yeah, suddenly "majority rules" is a "controversial tactic"

Only in the rarefied atmosphere of the Beltway Village. Here's a hint for Politico, The Hill, and all the other insider pundits: Nobody cares about the process, just the result.

[Eric J in MN]

5. The issue in the article isn't a majority vote in the Senate,

...but letting the House vote for the Senate bill and reconciliation bill at the same time by making the Senate bill part of the reconciliation bill.

[Donnachaidh]

3. firing up the football or the kleig lights?

or this --