The Q nobody has asked until today: Amending Non-Existent Law In the House

By: ehud (Diary)  |  March 20th at 01:58 PM  | 

Apparently the Rules committee is in Chaos over whether or not the house can vote on an amendment to non-existing law (the Senate bill). I have brought this point up a few times in comment threads, but I haven’t read any articles about what seems a very obvious point: If the Senate can’t start reconciliation until the Senate bill is law (since reconciliation must amend | Read More »

Why the Slaughter Rule MUST be unconstitutional

By: ehud (Diary)  |  March 17th at 04:36 PM  | 

Consider for a moment what would happen if the House passed a reconciliation package, deeming the Senate bill passed, but the Senate was unable to pass a reconciliation bill. The president could then sign the Senate bill even though that bill, by itself, didn’t pass the Senate and couldn’t pass the Senate (Nancy Pelosi, in a rare moment of truth, just said her members don’t | Read More »