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Re:Slaughter House Rules - Passing the health-care bill by sethg on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @09:48AM (#1195646)
If you don’t remember it happening before, it’s because nobody has made this much noise about it before. When Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House, for example, this very process was used 90 times. See the link I posted in my other comment.
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Re:Slaughter House Rules - Passing the health-care bill by byteCoder on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @09:05PM (#1197355)
"tu quoque" (party A did this so that makes it right for party B) is not a valid argument. If it was unconstitutional then, it's still unconstitutional now (even if it's now a tradition). (Cf. Gephardt Rule)
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Re:Slaughter House Rules - Passing the health-care bill by hga on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @09:50AM (#1195649)
A process of "deeming" a bill passed without actually voting on it?

As I noted in my reply, "self-executing" is a red herring.

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