Democratic Culture Of Corruption #102: Congressional Conception

Written by: Evrviglnt on Monday, March 23rd, 2009

By conception I mean the sordid news of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid aborting one provision to impregnate the shell with another.  From The Corner:

Earlier this month, the House fell two votes shy of passing the bill under suspension of the rules, a maneuver that shields legislation from amendment or a motion to recommit but requires a two-thirds majority for passage. Senate leaders then devised a strategy to use a bill that had already passed the House — H.R. 146, a proposal to protect Revolutionary War battlefields — and strip its contents, replacing it with the omnibus lands bill.

Because the House already passed H.R. 146, the Rules Committee can approve a closed rule that would block a motion to recommit, eliminating the GOP’s best procedural chance to stymie the bill. The chamber would only need a simple majority vote to concur with the Senate amendment.

Ed Morrisey over at Hot Air writes:

In computer parlance, it’s a Trojan Horse virus, intended to deliver bad legislation without giving its opponents any way to block it.  This process is the antithesis to openness and transparency.  Pelosi and Reid want to find new ways to gut the democratic (small d) process in order to impose unpopular legislation on America.

That’s one ugly baby.

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