Via The Corner’s Daniel Foster comes a nasty little report on the latest health care bill shenanigans:
House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill, the chairwoman said Tuesday.
Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version.
Slaughter has not taken the plan to Speaker Pelosi as Democrats await CBO scores on the corrections bill. “Once the CBO gives us the score we’ll spring right on it,” she said.
[. . .]
House members are concerned the Senate could fail to approve the corrections bill, making them nervous about passing the Senate bill with its much-maligned sweetheart deals for certain states.
“We’re well beyond that,” Pelosi said Tuesday, though she did not clarify.
Put simply as possible: Slaughter is writing a bill that, if approve, would magically “pass” a later bill, without anyone having seen it or voted on the later bill.
Maybe that’s what Nancy Pelosi was talking about when she said, “we have to pass the health care bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
Astounding. Just astounding.
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