It is reported that a provision of the proposed health care bill states: "[I]t shall not be in order in the senate or the house of representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection."
It looks like this bill is attempting to effectuate a rule change binding the current and future congresses. It could be changed again with a 2/3 vote, but would make it difficult to do so, to correct the inevitable problems that will be revealed as implementation unfolds. A repeal would likely be vetoed by Obama while he is in office, requiring a 2/3 vote of both houses to pass it over his veto, so the effect would be to entrench it even if Obama is not re-elected. To my knowledge nothing like this has ever been attempted before. I would appreciate any information about previous attempts. -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------- Constitution Society 2900 W Anderson Ln C-200-322, Austin, TX 78757 512/299-5001 www.constitution.org [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
