Allen Quist calls on Congressman Walz to reject the Constitutional Crisis being created on Health Care
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Mankato, MN) – Allen Quist is calling on Congressman Tim Walz to reject the strategy being concocted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to “pass” health care without her members ever voting on the bill. It’s accurately called the “Slaughter Strategy,” after Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, who dreamed it up, Quist said.
Quist says it works like this: The House would pass a rule that proclaims that the Senate Health Care Reform bill that passed on Christmas Eve is “deemed” passed in the House without members ever actually voting on it.
The bottom line, says Quist, is that Pelosi is set to declare the Senate Bill to have “deemed to have passed” when it did not actually happen—she is set to say the House effectively passed the bill when it wasn’t even voted on.
Quist notes that our Constitution, Article I, Section 7, states: “Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it becomes Law, be presented to the President of the United States;”
This statement in our Constitution clearly means, according to Quist, that, to become law, a bill must pass the House and the Senate and must do so in exactly the same form. By the words: “shall have passed the House of Representatives” is meant to have actually passed, not just “deemed to have passed.” Our Constitution does not allow “deemed to have passed” as a genuine method of passing law, Quist said.
Quist also said, “All members of Congress have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. They have not taken an oath to blindly support Nancy Pelosi. That should make the choice before our lawmakers remarkably simple. Charles Krauthammer wisely said that national decline is a choice. Reaffirmation of freedom is a choice, as well. Members of Congress who vote yes on a fraudulent rule such as this demonstrate contempt for our Republic and for freedom. Let us hope and pray that members of Congress choose wisely.”
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