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No Parliamentary Shortcut
12:40 am March 21, 2010, by Jamie Dupree
House Democrats on Saturday backed off a controversial plan to approve a Senate health care bill using an arcane parliamentary shortcut and will instead allow a direct vote on both a health care reconciliation bill and a Senate-passed health care bill.
As the House Rules Committee began its work Saturday morning on the parameters for the health care debate, every Republican slammed the idea of an indirect vote on that Senate bill.
“This process corrupts and prostitutes the system,” said Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX).
But Democrats led by Rules Committee Chair Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) turned aside such complaints, reminding Republicans that they had used self-executing rules repeatedly when the GOP ran the U.S. House.
A few hours later though, Democrats suddenly changed their tune, announcing that there would be no parliamentary shortcut, that the House would vote directly on the Senate bill.
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