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For Health Care, A Debate Over Process Threatens Policy

March 16, 2010 - by Eric Naing

Ironically, the legislative maneuver chosen to protect on-the-fence House Democrats from the political fallout of voting for the Senate health care bill (H.R.3590) could actually derail it. Conservative outrage over a plan to have the House pass the bill with a self-executing rule now has lawmakers arguing over process rather than policy.

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Of the 6 Recent Substantial Uses of the Self-Executing Rule, 5 Were Done by GOP

March 16, 2010 - by Donny Shaw

Since the politics of the self-executing rule (a.k.a. the "deem and pass" strategy, or the "Slaughter solution") are blowing up right now -- discussion of the rule currently dominates the top half of Memerorandum -- I thought I should bring back this historcial information from a post I wrote when the idea of using the rule for health care was first reported.

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