dear andrea mitchell, your bias is showing.

[spanone]

debbie wasserman-schultz just told andrea that the republicans have used this process 36 times to pass legislation.

andrea said the fact that pelosi brought it up at the last minute proves she's desperate and probably doesn't have the votes......


that damned liberal media

m$nbc

[eleny]

1. can you help me out...

i just got online and also turned on the tv and caught the last bit of the interview. is there a name for the process? i can research it from there.

sounds like more flapping by the republicans re: procedure they liked to use. :hi:

[spanone]

2. 'self-executing rule'...not sure it has an actual name

Under this tactic, the House could simultaneously approve the Senate version of the bill while voting on the package of changes. This would "deem" the Senate bill passed, though not directly show members voting in favor of passage.

[eleny]

3. Interesting! I'll have to read up on this

From Rep W-S, the Repubs used it a bunch.

Thanks!

[eleny]

4. According to MSNBC, Pelosi is having a press conference in this hour

[spanone]

5. i wonder if they will cover it? they gave chris dodd about 90 seconds yesterday.

[eleny]

8. Someone is bound to ask about it since it's the scandal of the day

[spanone]

11. m$nbc is calling it 'deem and pass'

[lib2DaBone]

6. just the thought of Andrea Mitchell in bed with Alan Greenspan...

.. is enough to make me hurl....

[eleny]

7. Keep telling yourself they have different bedrooms

[FrenchieCat]

9. It was pretty bad!

Andrea Mitchell is really into those GOP talking points!
Makes one think she writes them and passes them out
for the GOP to the Press corp.

I'm really more than just a bit tired of this blatant bias shit
that poses as news reporting.

[WCGreen]

10. Shre isn't desperate...

She is giving cover to wavering members, if the House goes this way...

[ChicagoSuz219]

12. Debbie was great... as usual!

It made Andrea seem uninformed about how Congress works.

[eleny]

13. Definition of "Self Executing" Rules plus some examples of how it has been used

Order Code 98-710 GOV
Updated December 21, 2006

Definition of “Self-Executing” Rule. One of the newer types is called a “selfexecuting”
rule; it embodies a “two-for-one” procedure. This means that when the House
adopts a rule it also simultaneously agrees to dispose of a separate matter, which is
specified in the rule itself. For instance, self-executing rules may stipulate that a discrete
policy proposal is deemed to have passed the House and been incorporated in the bill to
be taken up. The effect: neither in the House nor in the Committee of the Whole will
lawmakers have an opportunity to amend or to vote separately on the “self-executed”
provision. It was automatically agreed to when the House passed the rule. Rules of this
sort contain customary, or “boilerplate,” language, such as: “The amendment printed in

accompanying this resolution] shall be considered as adopted in the House and in the
Committee of the Whole.”

Contemporary Uses are listed here:
http://www.rules.house.gov/Archives/98-710.pdf