Mark Levin explained the Constitution requires the House and Senate pass identical language for a bill to be presentable to the President as a law. That is the basis for Landmark Legal’s legal filing, should ‘deem and pass’ health care be signed by Obama:
H/t for video to the Gateway Pundit.
Michelle Malkin reports that ‘deem and pass’ is dead. The sense is that Pelosi now has the votes to pass the Senate version. If so, look for a long list of payoffs to Senators to subsequently pass a bar of the federal funding of abortions.
Update: The House will apparently first vote on the reconciliation bill and, assuming it passes, vote and pass the Senate version of the bill:
“We expect to have the votes to pass,” [House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said]. He also said “we have every reason to believe that the Senate will pass the House’s reconciliation bill.” “Deem and pass,” he added, is over. “This gives us the opportunity to vote on the amendment first, then the Senate bill … We determined we could do this and believe it’s a better process.”
Update II:
Senate version passed House 219 to 212.
H.R. 4872, Reconciliation, passed 220 to 211.
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Regardless on tomorrow’s votes, do not become downhearted; this has been a victory.
The polls, rallies, and bombarding of the communication lines into Congress shows a huge majority of American were energized to loudly rebuke the federal takeover of health care. In addition, the Democrats backed down from using the ‘Slaughter rule’ and sidestep the Constitution. Mark Levin led the charge on that score and many were indicating they would pile on.
We must rededicate ourselves to making the Democrats pay a steep price for ignoring the will of a people come the primaries and Election Day.
Sgt.Tim I agree a 100% with you about this re-energizing the gop
I hope Mark has a challenge ready if it DOES pass; that’s the next step.
They backed down on deem and pass because “Atlas” shrugged.
Michelle Malkin has posted how the House will proceed today.
Let’s see if I have the order of the key pieces of this puzzle straight: Obama is going to issue an Executive Order banning the use of federal funding of abortions; the House will vote on “reconciliation” of the Senate bill (which will not actually amend what Obama will sign); assuming that the latter passes, the House will then vote on the Senate version of the bill which will, if it passes, go to Obama for signature; and then the Senate will vote on the House’s reconciliation of the Senate bill.
They deliberately skipped voting for a conference in order to cut House and Senate Republicans out of the process. How Soviet of Reid and Pelosi.
I see a problem with this. I cannot see how you can vote upon a bill to amend a bill until the bill you wish to amend is first signed into a Law. I comprehend why they wish to do this. They do not feel safe by voting for the Senate version and wish to clarify their positions by making the first move but that is not a correct way to do things.
There are the grounds for Landmark Legal in a nutshell, task-well done.
I can’t help but think that Mark’s threat of lawsuit had something to do with the Dems backing off of Deem and Pass. I hope other unconstitutional flaws are found in this leglisation, or some rules are violated in the Progressives rush to win and expand the federal government…I’m nearly certain there are…
Anna, see comment 3 above. Who do you think I was referring to when I mentioned “Atlas”? Forewarned, forearmed. You have to keep your powder dry or as Fess Parker (who recently passed away), when he played Davie Crockett said, “wait till you see the whites of their eyes”. ML would have destroyed this Bill, they knew it and Waxman was right to be wary. The fact of the matter is that an Executive Order (preventing Federal funds for abortions) is one hell of a way to garner votes. Stupak, in the end, will get screwed.
If you watched Senator John Cornyn just now on Fox News Sunday, you know that even if “HCR” passes today in the House this is far from over.
Personally, I hope if it passes it is 216 to 215 with Stupak voting ‘yea’ after Obama signs an Executive Order. Let’s see if his district trusts Obama enough to reelect Stupak (I doubt it). In fact, let’s have this fight now on all of it, every takeover of our freedom.
Hey Sgt. Tim.
I’m from the area (not Stupacked’s district proper, but the area still…), and Stupacked is a lame duck in his bitter clinger country district.
He capitulated with the Statist, and in these parts it is bad news to be seen as somebody you wouldn’t do a handshake contract with.
Healthcare is a nothingburger for people watching factories in the area shutting down, and worse given the promise form the Statist-in-chief and his “laser-like focus” on jobs.
It’s a cheap district to win, and Stupacked needs to go. It’s a conservative area, and an incumbent (once elected) always battles from the top of the hill.
Benishek on the Levin show tonight seems like a good guy, and has the ‘mo… I don’t know the rest of the field (five?) running for the R nomination, but you could run a sack of soggy potato chips FTW against Lame Duck Stupacked.
Best regards,
the botnet
I never underestimated the Speakers ability to control “yes” and “no” votes, among her ensemble of drones, despite the fact that she is a Constitutional illiterate and an overall stupid person. That said she wanted that count over 216 to avoid hanging the blame on the last demorat to turn. She failed. Stupid Stupack will go down in infamy along with the phony pro-lifers he brought along with him.
Well,looks like the socialists/Marxists/communists have won this time,but now onto Mark’s lawsuit over the constitutionality of this monstrosity.This is our only hope,that and all of us rising up and either supporting other groups threatening to sue,or us,ourselves,suing the government for violating our civil rights by forcing us to buy government-approved health insurance,etc…….The left might’ve won the battle this time,but they haven’t won the war just yet! We must be willing to pull out all the stops,because we have no other choice,fellow patriots/capitalists!
Hello Everyone,
Now is the time for each ad everyone of us to send whatever we can to support Marks’ lawsuit.
Be it $1 to $whatever, it’s time to to make DC realize they MUST liste to us (they were elected to work or us) and when they don’t, “ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES”
Paul
Mark’s lawsuit was only if the Deem & Pass rule was used. However, that was NOT used.
The battle now turns to Virginia and any other states that fight this legislation.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2219276420100322
I’m SO proud to be represented by such a fine man, Ken Cuccinelli. Pray that he and the other attorneys general are successful in their fight.
Mark was obviously facetious in describing HC as a right. In reality the Bill denies you your unalienable right to Liberty to choose what is good for your right to life and your ability to pursue happiness (property) is certainly impaired. It also violates many Supreme Court bogus decisions regarding privacy and the subsequent laws created. That is what can be turned against them.
If the Supreme Court determined that people can make decisions regarding contraceptives, under the concept of privacy, then nothing should prevent them, or force them, from making similar decisions regarding their health care.