Constitutional Crisis: House to Pass Health Care Reform Without Voting on It
U.S Constitution, Article I, Section VII, Clause II.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively…
Democrats say, Constitution be damned!
In the Slaughter Solution, the rule would declare that the House “deems” the Senate version of Obamacare to have been passed by the House. House members would still have to vote on whether to accept the rule, but they would then be able to say they only voted for a rule, not for the bill itself.
Thus, Slaughter is preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill “passed” once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes. Democrats would thereby avoid a direct vote on the health care bill while allowing it to become law!
Constitutional attorney Mark R. Levin asks, “They’re going to present a rule, issued by her committee as chairman, that says that the House already adopted the Senate bill when we know it didn’t?”
U.S Constitution, Article I, Section VII, Clause II.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively…
According to Levin, James Madison himself gave special care and attention to this clause in the Constitution.
Levin: And do you want to know why? Because this clause goes to the heart of this Republic.
This clause goes to the heart of how our representative body, that is Congress, makes laws. And so I want you to [observe] how particular the Framers were… They have to pass a Bill to present it to the President…
This is one of the most exacting clauses in the Constitution.
And, to the best of my knowledge, which extends over three decades, no Congress has previously tried to institute policies without actual statutes.
Here we have the President of the United States and Congressional leaders actually talking about the possibility of a brazen and open violation of one of the most fundamental aspects of our Constitution and Republic! How we actually make laws!
Let me be as clear as I know how. If this is done, this will create the greatest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War. It would be 100 times worse than Watergate.
…It would be government by fiat… meaning there would be no law… the mere discussion by officials in this government is such a grotesque violation of the actual legislative function of Congress [that it] puts us… at the brink. At the brink.
This is why we conservatives revere the Constitution. This is why we stress the Constitution’s words have meaning and historical context and must be complied with. Because otherwise we have anarchy, which leads to tyranny.
This is a crucial lesson for those of you who… aren’t sure what your beliefs are, or if you have any beliefs. Or aren’t sure if you even care. We have an effort underway by one of the most powerful chairmen in Congress, the woman who heads the Rules Committee, …openly discussing gutting Congress. Gutting Congress.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have never before been asked to pass legislation by “deeming” it approved under a House rule instead of following the process required by the U.S. Constitution in which they actually vote on the proposal itself, according to a senior aide to House Republicans.
The procedure – dubbed by critics as the “Slaughter Solution” – is the brain-child of House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, who, at the request of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, is trying to fashion a rule that would allow the House to move toward passage of a health care reform bill without a recorded vote on the Senate version.
Like the Senate, which adopted its health care reform measure on Christmas Eve, the House passed its version last year. But there are major differences between the two measures, especially concerning federal funding of abortions. The Senate version includes billions of dollars to fund new health care clinics that would offer abortion services. The House bill was passed only after Rep. Bart Stupak’s amendment barring federal funding for the procedure was included.
Slaughter’s approach would bring to the House floor a reconcilliation(sic) bill to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of health care reform with the rule deeming the House to have approved the Senate version. The GOP aide, who requested anonymity, said a search of the House archives failed to reveal any previous use of the Slaughter Solution.
The slaughter option will slaughter the Constitution. I’m with Mark Levin, the GOP needs to call for Slaughter’s expulsion and bring wide attention to the underhanded recklessness of the Democrats.
Which means that, for probably the first time in U.S. history, the president will be signing into law a bill that never received its own vote on the House floor. The “what if a Republican did it?” meme is overused, but clear your mind and try to imagine the media reaction if the Frist/Hastert Congress tried something like this for, oh, say, social security reform. If ever you’re tempted to agree with idiots on the left who think the press is balanced, let that thought experiment be your corrective.
As for Levin’s idea: Yes, of course the vote will fail along party lines. So what? The only arrow left in the GOP’s quiver is to make sure the public knows precisely how obnoxious, illegal, and underhanded the Democrats’ behavior is. The media simply will not make this an issue unless Republicans drag them to it kicking and screaming, so start dragging.
Start contacting Republicans and tell them to expose this to the public and get as much attention as possible. The light needs to shine on these rats before they destroy our Republic and democracy. Michelle has the list of contact info you will need. So, what are you still doing here? Go!
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Posted by Jay on March 13, 2010 12:37 pm
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The new thing is, they really don’t even have to VOTE on it – not only do they not have to read it – they don’t even have to vote, it will just PASS, like magic. By decree.
No democracy, no discussion – remember “the debate is over”?
As I have said, once we elect them, there is really no reason for them to even go to work. They can go sit in a jacuzzi somewhere sipping Mai Tai’s – we can fill in their “votes” simply by party affiliation.
Why waste money on Congressional and Senate offices? Why pay for all that support staff? Why pay for their travel to and from DC?
Yes it is illegal, but they don’t care. It is about ultimate control. They’ll be willing to take one step back to gain ten steps forward. More importantly, there is no guarantee the next election will be fair or valid. How many states have democrats controlling the elections? Remember Washington and Minnesota?
No, now that they are breaking the law, a couple more won’t matter. Here’s the question. What will the citizens do about a hi-jacked government?
When Obama said he was going to fundamentally remake America, he knew he was going to be successful, this plan was already in place in case the regular procedures failed.
They are radicals, not stupid. You’ll see how far they will go when you read the book. It has happened before in other nations. Recently in South America and in Honduras. Honduras stood up, the rest just fell in line behind the President who was offering “social justice”.
The reason it is illegally done by these criminals, is because they are in the know of what the real deal is legally, and it is not what you and I think it is. What “they” are doing is perfectly legal in “their” surreal system of a de facto government. “They know, we don’t know, what the real deal is and take full advantage of it. We are not reconised in the kangaroo courts as natural persons anymore, but, only as a person, (which is really an artificial person, created when the Expatriation Act of 1868 was passed, very next day the 14th Amendment was passed.) We lost our State citizenship,in favour of a Federal Citizenship. Our federal citizenship is first, and we all, voluntarirly agree to this with/by signing “their” contracts, such as IRS forms, Driver’s License’s, any License’s, using zip codes, (which we don’t really have to if we don’t want to)the zip codes are used as documention to prove that we live/use “their” territory as our residential address, it is all just legality’s, to twist us into being a part of “their” system. What is even sadder, is not one of our elected officials lets us in, on this/their” secret, that “they” are all aware of, except, us. Before the 14th Amendment we were citizens of our States territory’s/nations, which were removed in place of, favour of the federal. We have been duped by the 14th Amendment, and NOT A ONE elected official has stepped up to the plate to help free us from this Communistic Agenda, NOT A ONE. By not letting us in on the real deal, tells me that “they” are all awful and do not really care about us. My heart is deeply troubled that NOT A ONE of “them”, throughout the years has not put these cards on the table for all of us and everyone, to see. We need to go back to the basics and refix/reclaim what was stolen from us then and every day afterwards.
Our courts have become a kangaroo court system, or Cracker Jack Palace’s, and we have been at the mercy of a bunch of kangaroo laws, with kangaroo lawyers, judges, police, etc.. the list can go on and on. I’m sure we all get the picture. We can legally withdraw from this de facto governMENTAL system and peacefully I might add. Go to info@pacinlaw.org (Peoples Awareness Coalition) or THEREDAMENDMENT.net or statenationals.net to find out more, and one more website, for those who are not afraid to find out the real truth, hardtruth.com, someone emailed me this with the zip code info. it is a federal statute, I think. I’m sorry, one other thing, there is a statue on top of the Captitol Building in Washington D.C. (District of Criminals) who is a Greek Goddess, her name is Persephone, a Goddess of the underworld, or the dead. Shouldn’t she be watching over a cemetary instead of our Capital? Just another FYI. Be Safe. Love, mylene