Nashville Adult Entertainment: House leaders shift strategy on health care vote

24 03 2010

Republicans complained that Democrats are trying to avoid directly dealing with the Senate bill, which is unpopular in the House and, according to polls, with many Americans. Democrats countered that the vote on the rule, in effect, will indicate how Democrats feel about the Senate measure and that they therefore are not trying to hide from the political fallout.
“The American public deserves to know where their elected officials stand and not have them hide behind a procedural vote,” Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) said Saturday morning.
Rep. Joe Barton (R- Texas) unsuccessfully urged rules committee chairwoman Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.) to pass an open rule instead of the “deemed to have passed” version so that policy differences between Democrats and Republicans could be openly debated.
“This process corrupts and prostitutes the system,” he said.

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