Quoting Art 1 Sec 7 isn’t enough. Apparently there is more to this with the lawyers. I got smacked down on another thread by a Con lawyer for quoting this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472905/posts
I guess that my point is the Constitution requires that EVERY bill have its votes recorded in each house's journal PRIOR to landing on the President's desk for signature.
Now, we ALL agree that there will be a bill on his desk [if passed]. WHATEVER the bill is, and however it was conjured up, it will be called the healthcare bill - and it MUST have the votes recorded FOR AND AGAINST it, per Article I, Section 7.
IF it DOES NOT have the votes recorded from BOTH the House and the Senate in EACH house's journal - it violates the Presentment Clause of the Constitution. That can be a constitutional challenge to its validity.
IF it DOES have the votes recorded from BOTH the House and the Senate in EACH house's journal - then the Dems cannot say that they DID NOT vote for it and they will pay with their political lives in November.
Especially since there will be 8 month's time for it to be flayed and exposed for all of the American public to see ...
FYI: In Clinton v. City of New York, Justice John Paul Stevens cited that the procdures outline in the Presentment Clause CANNOT be violated ...