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Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote

Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was "absolutely" committed to doing so.

House members are still negotiating important issues in the bill--whether it will provide taxpayer-funding for abortions, for example. Pelosi is pushing for a Saturday House vote, and a number of big changes will be introduced, likely less than 24 hours before the vote takes place (if in fact it does). The Rules Committee hasn't yet released its resolution, or rule, that must be passed before the bill can move from committee to the floor. The rule will set the terms of debate and determine what amendments are in order.

It seems likely that the rule will allow very few, if any, up-or-down votes on amendments on the House floor. Rather, the rule will include a series of amendments that will all be adopted at once if the rule passes.

On September 24, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that she was "absolutely" committed to putting the text of the final House bill online for 72 hours before the House votes:

TWS: Madam Speaker, do you support the measure to put the final House bill online for 72 hours before it's voted on at the very end?

PELOSI: Absolutely. Without question.

But tonight, when asked if Speaker Pelosi will leave the bill online for 72 hours after we see what's in the rule, Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly replied in an email: "No; [the] pledge was to have manager’s amendment online for 72 hours, and we will do that."

Apparently Pelosi's agreement to leave the "final" bill online "at the very end" of the process wasn't such a straightforward pledge.

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This is outrageous. No one should be re-elected to office in 2010 who wants to vote on bills or have bills voted on before the American People have time to read the bills. This is government tyranny.

Government by the politicians and not the people.

Outrageous doesn't begin to describe it. Deceitful, underhanded, snakey "b" with an "itch".

Originally Posted by Judy

This is outrageous. No one should be re-elected to office in 2010 who wants to vote on bills or have bills voted on before the American People have time to read the bills. This is government tyranny.

Damn Right!!! These Traitors are going to ruin everything!!!

Even if they manage to pass this bill, we can support our states to nullify the bill.

Originally Posted by 93camaro

Originally Posted by Judy

This is outrageous. No one should be re-elected to office in 2010 who wants to vote on bills or have bills voted on before the American People have time to read the bills. This is government tyranny.

Damn Right!!! These Traitors are going to ruin everything!!!

Right you are, 93camro. They are nothing but low-life low-down scum bag Traitors selling out our nation faster than we can count the ways and using their authoritarian socialism to enslave the American People to their mandates and taxes and fines and penalties with a gun in our ears and a jail cell at the end of the hall if we dare to dissent or refuse to comply.

They must be stopped.