House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) shameful scheme to “deem” the Senate Obamacare bill into law without a vote violates Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution.
As we mentioned in our action alert two days ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is plotting to use a parliamentary procedure to prevent a recorded vote on the Senate Obamacare bill in the House because she lacks the necessary 216 votes needed to pass it. This shameful tactic to simply “deem” the Senate bill as passed by bringing the 2,309-page “fixer” bill to a House vote has been dubbed as the “Slaughter Solution,” aptly named after liberal House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY).
The “Slaughter Solution” violates Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution which states:
“Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives
and the Senate, shall, before it becomes a Law,
be presented to the President of the United States.”
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