The GOP doesn’t have a health care plan but devote their attention to how to prevent passage of a healthcare reform bill in Congress. Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) has written and distributed a “how to manual” to his GOP Senators on how to obstruct passage of the bill. [Huffington Post]
Gregg makes note of all the procedural tools the GOP can use before measures are considered, when they come to the floor and even after passage.
- He highlights the use of hard quorum calls for any motion to proceed, as opposed to a far quicker unanimous consent provision.
- He reminds his colleagues that, absent unanimous consent, they can force the Majority Leader to read any “full-text substitute amendment.”
- When it comes to offering amendments to the health care bill, the New Hampshire Republican argues that it is the personification of “full, complete, and informed debate,” to “offer an unlimited number of amendments — germane or non-germane — on any subject.”
The details of Gregg’s outline are a clear reflection of the extent to which Republicans are turning to the Byzantine processes of the Senate chamber as a means of holding up reform. And doing so with eagerness.
You can read Gregg’s full array of how to block passage on Huffington Post.
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