Pelosi and Slaughter were against the “Slaughter Solution” before they were for it

nancy_pelosi_0.jpgLets hop in our time machines and go back to 2005. Back then of course the Republicans were in majority in the House acting like a bunch of Democrats. 5 years ago when the Republican majority in Congress approved a national debt limit increase using a self-executing rule similar to the so called Slaughter Solution, Nancy Pelosi and Democrats were fuming. The Ralph Nader-backed Public Citizen legal activists went to to federal court to challenge the constitutionality of the move. Guess who joined the Public Citizens activists in that suit with amicus briefs? According to the Washington Examiner, it was none other than Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman and Louise Slaughter!

“Article I of the United States Constitution requires that before proposed legislation may “become[] a Law,” U.S. CONST. art. I, § 7, cl. 2, “(1) a bill containing its exact text [must be] approved by a majority of the Members of the House of Representatives; (2) the Senate [must] approve[] precisely the same text; and (3) that text [must be] signed into law by the President,” Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417, 448, 118 S.Ct. 2091, 141 L.Ed.2d 393 (1998).

“Public Citizen, a not-for-profit consumer advocacy organization, filed suit in District Court claiming that the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Pub.L. No. 109-171, 120 Stat. 4 (2006) (“DRA” or “Act”), is invalid because the bill that was presented to the President did not first pass both chambers of Congress in the exact same form. In particular, Public Citizen contends that the statute’s enactment did not comport with the bicameral passage requirement of Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution, because the version of the legislation that was presented to the House contained a clerk’s error with respect to one term, so the House and Senate voted on slightly different versions of the bill and the President signed the version passed by the Senate.

“Public Citizen asserts that it is irrelevant that the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate both signed a version of the proposed legislation identical to the version signed by the President. Nor does it matter, Public Citizen argues, that the congressional leaders’ signatures attest that indistinguishable legislative text passed both houses.” (Emphasis added)

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March 16, 2010 · Filed Under Democrats, Nancy Pelosi


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  • greg

    I can’t beleive that the democrates sold the county down the river today. Its sad that they don’t respect the people of this nation and country. They didn’t ask me about what I wanted they just did what they did for them selfs not the public and the american people, why didn’t they contact me as a voter to ask me what I wanted. No they just wanted to line their pockets. Pelosi has no clue what goverment should be she is just a yes man for the one and only Barack he’s been screwing us from day 1.