Stupak & The Enrollment Corrections Bill = The Deal

[Me.]

Stupak takes us into the weeds under the weeds of reconciliation
by David Waldman
Fri Mar 19, 2010 at 07:02:05 PM PDT

“Lordy, Lordy, Lordy.

You're not gonna believe how low down in the weeds we're gonna have to get for this one.

We just learned from mcjoan that Bart Stupak is after a deal that would somehow jam a foot in the health insurance reform door for his now-notorious Stupak amendment on abortion:

This morning, during an appearance on Good Morning America, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) reaffirmed that he might vote for the Senate health care bill if Democrats pass the Stupak abortion amendment as a separate measure. Stupak said that Democrats have shown a “renewed” interest in tying his amendment to the Senate bill:

STUPAK: George, that’s called an enrollment corrections bill. I presented that to leadership about ten days ago. There’s renewed interest in that piece of legislation that I and a number of us are ready to introduce. It’s prepared. Everybody’s looking at it right now. That’s one way, maybe. But we set the deal with the Senate. You give us a vote in the House. We had a vote in the House. It was overwhelmingly 240-194, to keep public law, no public funding for abortion.” …con’t…
http://www.dailykos.com/

[Me.]

1. Update

"UPDATE:

Here's something else fun!

I found a previous use of the enrollment corrections process. It was used in the 108th Congress under Republicans.

Do you remember that crazy provision that got slipped into an appropriations bill that nobody would claim credit for -- but which was eventually blamed on former Rep. Ernie Istook (R-OK) -- that would supposedly have given the Chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees the right to send people into the IRS to examine people's individual tax returns, etc.?

Well, that crazy piece of crap provision was removed with an enrollment correction bill when the Republicans got caught with it in the conference report and were too embarrassed to let it stand, but didn't want to have to vote on it because it would be to admit the "error," not to mention requiring recommitting the bill to conference.

But wait, there's more! The enrollment correction bill was designated H. Con. Res. 528, and do you know how the Republicans passed it?

They used "deeming" to pass it! Section 3 of H. Res. 866 (which was the rule for the appropriations bill) reads as follows:

SEC. 3. Upon the adoption of this resolution, the House shall be considered to have adopted House Concurrent Resolution 528.

Help! Police! Deeming! Socialismz!

(P.S. -- for still more deep-in-the-weeds "fun" with deeming, see "More about "deeming" exclusively (!!!) at Congress Matters.)"

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2. He needs to go the fuck away. He's like Jason in Halloween. Geez!

[Me.]

3. From FDL

…SNIP…

“The deal calls for Stupak to have a vote on his amendment either before or after the House votes to confirm the Senate bill on Sunday. Stupak is confident that he has the votes to pass the measure, and is happy to have the vote after the House passes the Senate bill. He believes that by using a “tie bar” approach, his amendment would be “tied” to the health care bill — which would require just 51 votes in the Senate.

Pro-choice members of the House, however, are demanding that the vote on the Concurrent Resolution happen before the House confirms the Senate bill. If in fact it passes, they plan to vote against confirming the Senate bill. They want Rep. Diana Degette to release the names of the 41 cosigners to her letter who pledged to vote against any bill that restricts a woman’s right to choose, and they are angry that the White House has been whipping to push through the Stupak deal.

“It is outrageous that a Democratic Speaker, a Democratic Majority Leader and a Democratic President should support rolling back women’s reproductive rights,” says one member of the group.

Alan Grayson, who voted against the Stupak Amendment when it went before the House last October, now has 80 cosponsors for his public option amendment, but has not been granted a floor vote.

“I wonder why we can have a vote to please the anti-choice clique, and we can’t have a vote on the public option,” he says.”

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4. I would Rather See this Bill FAIL

Then let an anti-woman/anti-freedom POS like him and his ilk get their way.

F him and the anti-choice a-holes in the party, kick them all out now!