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Law Prof Breaks Down the House Health Care Vote and the Constitution

Michael McConnell writes in the WSJ: Enter the Slaughter solution. It may be clever, but it is not constitutional. To become law–hence eligible for amendment via reconciliation–the Senate health-care bill must actually be signed into law. The Constitution speaks directly to how that is done. According to Article I, Section 7, in order for a “Bill” to “become a Law,” it “shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate” and be “presented to the President of the United States” for signature or veto. Unless a bill actually has “passed” both Houses, it cannot be presented to the president and cannot become a law.


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