More information in response to Standard Mischief‘s questions. The American Enterprise Institute’s Norm Ornstein: Any veteran observer of Congress is used to the rampant hypocrisy over the use of parliamentary procedures that shifts totally from one side to the other as a majority moves to minority status, and vice versa. But I can’t recall a [...]
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More on the Self-Executing Rule
Posted in Health, Legal Issues, Politics on March 16, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Is "Deem-and-Pass" Constitutional?
Posted in Health, Legal Issues, News & Current Events, Politics on March 16, 2010 | 57 Comments »
That’s a question that’s been posed by commenter Standard Mischief, among others. The answer? Maybe, depending on just how it’s done, but it’s not entirely clear. And the only constitutional way to do it would be a way that doesn’t give the House the political cover it’s looking for. Jack Balkin has the skinny.
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