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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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Originally posted by ACR26:
I am absolutely shocked.

I will not be voting for her again...I am instead going to vote for Senator Kennedy next week.

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To achieve health care reform, "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies -- they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process."

~Barack Obama August 21st, 2008

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To achieve health care reform, "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies -- they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process."

~Barack Obama August 21st, 2008

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Originally posted by Esample1:

Do you right-wingers ever fact-check anything before you start complaining about it?

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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.

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Originally posted by stec74:

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Originally posted by Esample1:

Do you right-wingers ever fact-check anything before you start complaining about it?

Do you?

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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.

A manager's amendment can be debated on the House floor and amended before the Final Bill is voted on.

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Originally posted by Esample1:
The bill was posted online Oct 29th.

http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf

The manager's amendment was posted Nov 3rd.

http://docs.house.gov/rules/he...1_hr3962_dingell.pdf

A vote is scheduled Nov 7th. That looks like 72 hours to me.

Do you right-wingers ever fact-check anything before you start complaining about it?

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Originally posted by Butterfieldk:

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Originally posted by Esample1:
The bill was posted online Oct 29th.

http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf

The manager's amendment was posted Nov 3rd.

http://docs.house.gov/rules/he...1_hr3962_dingell.pdf

A vote is scheduled Nov 7th. That looks like 72 hours to me.

Do you right-wingers ever fact-check anything before you start complaining about it?

Do you understand that the Bill is NOT NOT NOT the manager's amendment? Probably not.

You probably also believe that the Senate mark up process was by partisan when the Republicans were locked out of Herr(y) Reid's office. Durrrrrrrrrrrrr