oldroy wrote:
Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution says: All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.
Do you remember how the ACA, (Obamacare) was passed? Wasn't it Nancy Pelosi who stated that the House needed to approve the bill so they could find out what was in it? I so well remember her saying just that before every Democrat in the House voted for the law. Having been originated in the Senate the bill was as unconstitutional as any other that has ever been attempted. Chief Justice said in a Supreme Court decision that the "law" was actually a tax law since he found 21, or so, new taxes provided for in it. I will always believe that he set the thing up for another Court case when he said that and I still blame Republicans for not using his decision to blow that thing away. He wrote everything needed to do this when he wrote the majority opinion that left leaning judges wanted to write.
Do you all understand that Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1 was obeyed in the recent attempt to get rid of an unconstitutional law? At least it was passed according to what the Constitution orders. Is this a part of Democrat desire to kill that part of the Constitution? They do operate like that and it makes me wonder about them. At least the new law, AHCA, can't be called unconstitutional for the same reason that Obamacare certainly was. I keep wondering when this part of this law will be discussed by the left leaning media, or for that matter, Fox News.
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If you remember the bill passed that allowed the Bush administration to start the bailing out of the financial crisis in 2007, was voted down by the house. The senate crafted a bill that they passed and sent to the house which was passed. This I thought was unconstitutional since all revenue bills had to originate in the house. I wrote a law teacher who explained that what the senate does is keep a bill on file that they did not vote on. They then pull it out, add what they want to and pass it. This bill originally started in the house but the senate has the power to add to or delete from the bill. That's the reason that I think that every bill needs to stand on it on merit. They need to vote on all bills not keep them in a file for later use at there convince.