• Home
  • News
    • Business
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
    • Legislature
    • Politics / Govt
  • Sports
    • The Bill Pollock Show
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support

Missourinet

Your source for Missouri News and Sports

You are here: Home / Health / Medicine / Bond slams U.S. House for considering deem and pass tactic to push healthcare bill through

Bond slams U.S. House for considering deem and pass tactic to push healthcare bill through

March 18, 2010 By Jessica Machetta

The U.S. House is planning to use the deem and pass rule to push the healthcare reform legislation through. Senator Bond speaks out against that tactic.

Bond says the deem and pass rule exists to make technical corrections to legislation when it goes to a vote. He says there’s no way the healthcare package qualifies as a “technical correction.”

Some are asking whether using the tactic is constitutional. Bond says if it does work and the bill goes through, it’s likely the legislation will be brought up in 2013 for revision, saying if the House pushes its will on the American people, they’ll make their voices heard at the polls in the next election.

House Democrats don’t want to vote for the Senate version of the bill because it includes the excise tax and the Nebraska deal. That’s why reconciliation and deem and pass are being considered to push passage.

The House has also considered using reconciliation to get the 875 billion dollar healthcare bill pushed through, another rule that would force a vote.

The self-executing rule has been used by both parties over the years since the Great Depression. A recent example is when the House used it to increase the federal debt ceiling.

Jessica Machetta reports [Download / listen Mp3, 1:07]

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt

Subscribe to our daily newsletter


Tweets by Missourinet

Sports

Ex-Chiefs coach charged with felony DWI

Former … [Read More...]

Mizzou gets opportunity of a lifetime in 2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Out of … [Read More...]

Marching Mizzou is one of only three universities performing in 2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

The … [Read More...]

Missouri State Football earns share of Missouri Valley title–first since 1990

Missouri … [Read More...]

Arenado: “Just an amazing day, very thankful for it,” after his homer leads Cards to victory

Nolan … [Read More...]

More Sports

Tweets by missourisports

Archives

Opinion/Editorials

TwitterFacebook

Copyright © 2021 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC