Posted on 03/16/2010 2:13:31 PM PDT by Steelfish
GOP Assails Democrats For 'Sleights of Hand'
WASHINGTON - Democrats defended plans to push massive health care legislation through the House without a direct vote and Republicans assailed the strategy Tuesday, as both parties fenced ferociously over the health overhaul end game.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said that no final decision had been made on the complex parliamentary strategy, which would allow House Democrats to pass the Senate's health care legislation without voting on the bill itself. Instead House members, who dislike the Senate bill, would vote on a rule for debate that would deem the bill passed once a smaller package of fixes also had passed.
Hoyer defended the austere procedure, noting that it had been used in the past by both parties, and more often by Republicans, and that regardless of the approach, the House would be passing the Senate legislation.
"We're playing it straight," Hoyer said. "We will vote on it in one form or another."
The Maryland Democrat also said the public didn't care about process but about results, and that the approach Democrats are weighing would result in enactment of President Barack Obama's landmark legislation to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured and create new insurance market protections for nearly everybody else.
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Stalin would be proud of these guys.
Are these ABSOLUTE cowards actually AFRAID to VOTE in front of their nation for this bill...which means THEY KNOW it is WRONG?
I can't believe unions vote for democrats because I thought union leaders WANTED their slaves to HAVE TO VOTE IN THE OPEN for all to see ( so they can be controlled, kind of like the USSR used to do, donchaknow) ....how can the UNIONS support these cowardly democrats in the house?
Whatever.
The truth is that the Voters DO care, and will vote the obamacrats OUT at a bare minimum.
Dems should all de advised that anyone who votes for the reconciliation bill will be “deemed” to have voted for the Senate bill.
Yeah I agree ,Forget about elections they are a waste of time and Money we all Know Everyone Loves the Democrats,people are not concerned about the process
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