Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was "absolutely" committed to doing so.

House members are still negotiating important issues in the bill--whether it will provide taxpayer-funding for abortions, for example. Pelosi is pushing for a Saturday House vote, and a number of big changes will be introduced, likely less than 24 hours before the vote takes place (if in fact it does). The Rules Committee hasn't yet released its resolution, or rule, that must be passed before the bill can move from committee to the floor. The rule will set the terms of debate and determine what amendments are in order.

It seems likely that the rule will allow very few, if any, up-or-down votes on amendments on the House floor. Rather, the rule will include a series of amendments that will all be adopted at once if the rule passes.

On September 24, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that she was "absolutely" committed to putting the text of the final House bill online for 72 hours before the House votes:

TWS: Madam Speaker, do you support the measure to put the final House bill online for 72 hours before it's voted on at the very end?

PELOSI: Absolutely. Without question.

But tonight, when asked if Speaker Pelosi will leave the bill online for 72 hours after we see what's in the rule, Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly replied in an email: "No; [the] pledge was to have manager’s amendment online for 72 hours, and we will do that."

Apparently Pelosi's agreement to leave the "final" bill online "at the very end" of the process wasn't such a straightforward pledge.

Put her on your ignore list. I have since she told illegals they were patriots.

Gibby, I must have missed that statement. When and to who did she make it?

THE VOTE HAS BEEN PUT OFF TO MAYBE MONDAY WHILE THEY WORK OUT THE ABORTION ISSUE AND THEN HAVE ENOUGH VOTES.

Mic it was on all the news channels several months ago. She was speaking to illegals
in her home state of California telling them she was outraged by the Immigration Agency
coming into their homes at night and dragging them away to be deported and they are true
patriots for fighting against this. You just can't make this stuff up. She is the Speaker
of the House. I suggest you start reading with a more critical eye what's going on in
DC, the dems have controlled the congress for almost three years and alot of people including
me are getting angry for good reason. Fact the leftwing media reported it and never mentioned
the outrage she caused or in any way followed up on the story. Journalism 101 states the
government and the press must have an adverserial relationalship for a healthy democracy.
Please correct me if I am wrong in my opinion that the news media is dangerously to the left.

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Mic it was on all the news channels several months ago. She was speaking to illegals
in her home state of California telling them she was outraged by the Immigration Agency
coming into their homes at night and dragging them away to be deported and they are true
patriots for fighting against this. You just can't make this stuff up. She is the Speaker
of the House. I suggest you start reading with a more critical eye what's going on in
DC, the dems have controlled the congress for almost three years and alot of people including
me are getting angry for good reason. Fact the leftwing media reported it and never mentioned
the outrage she caused or in any way followed up on the story. Journalism 101 states the
government and the press must have an adverserial relationalship for a healthy democracy.
Please correct me if I am wrong in my opinion that the news media is dangerously to the lef

YES GIBBY I HEARD THE SAME THING. AND YOUR OPINION OF THE MEDIA IS 100% CORRECT, PELOSI IS A LYING ..... WHEN JUDGEMENT DAY COMES I DON'T WANT TO BE IN HER SHOES, OR DO WE WEAR SHOES ON THAT DAY? ANYWAY THIS WHOLE THING STINKS.

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Originally posted by Gibby:
Mic it was on all the news channels several months ago. She was speaking to illegals
in her home state of California telling them she was outraged by the Immigration Agency
coming into their homes at night and dragging them away to be deported and they are true
patriots for fighting against this. You just can't make this stuff up. She is the Speaker
of the House. I suggest you start reading with a more critical eye what's going on in
DC, the dems have controlled the congress for almost three years and alot of people including
me are getting angry for good reason. Fact the leftwing media reported it and never mentioned
the outrage she caused or in any way followed up on the story. Journalism 101 states the
government and the press must have an adverserial relationalship for a healthy democracy.
Please correct me if I am wrong in my opinion that the news media is dangerously to the left.

Gibby, I wrote my original question to you, not in the interest of challenging your statement, rather, because I had forgotten the incident. I believe I do read the news with a critical eye, although we may disagree at times on the interpretation we should place on events we read about. As for the press being to the left, that may depend on which press you are referring to. I would say that many people include certain radio shows, commentaries and many newspapers in the term "the press", and would have to acknowledge that some press may be dangerously to the left, while others are dangerously to the right.

Once again, please avoid reflexively reacting to questions being posed out of information-seeking and those being posed tongue-in-cheek, or in sarcasm.

My question was posed for purposes of information seeking.