Hot on the heels of some rumblings that she won’t be returning as House Speaker next year regardless of what happens in November, Nancy Pelosi today acknowledged a recent procedural ruling by the Senate parliamentarian that threatened to put a damper on her reconciliation plans. There had been some debate as to whether the parliamentarian’s decision required the president to sign the Senate bill into law before the reconciliation bill was voted on — as well as whether Democrats would try to circumvent the ruling. (READ ABOUT THE PROPOSED ‘SLAUGHTER SOLUTION’ HERE)
Said Pelosi:
The bills that have passed, ours with 220 in the House, theirs with 60 in the Senate,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said earlier today. “We’ll be acting upon the Senate bill with changes that were in the House bill reflected in the reconciliation. So in order to have the Senate bill be the basis and build upon it with the reconciliation, you have to pass the Senate bill, or else you’re talking about starting from scratch. So we will pass the Senate bill. Once we pass it, the President signs it or doesn’t, it’s – people would rather he waited until the Senate acted, but the Senate Parliamentarian, as you have said, said in order for them to do a reconciliation based on the Senate bill, it must be signed by the President.
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