[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1454]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            THE HOUSE HEALTH CARE VOTE AND THE CONSTITUTION

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, yesterday's Wall Street 
Journal highlights the process by which Democrats are trying to pass 
this government health care takeover. The process is just as bad as the 
provisions of the bill.
  Professor Michael McConnell, Director of the Constitutional Law 
Center at Stanford Law School, wrote the article entitled, ``House 
Health Care Vote and the Constitution.'' Mr. McConnell presents the 
process called the Slaughter solution, which is nothing more than a 
procedural trick that deems the Senate bill passed without ever having 
a straight up-or-down vote.
  The article explains, ``The Slaughter solution cannot be squared with 
Article I, section 7 of the Constitution. Senate rules protect against 
majoritarian overreach by allowing a determined minority to filibuster 
most types of legislation.''
  Madam Speaker, Americans need jobs, not a law which NFIB claims will 
kill 1.6 million jobs.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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