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Earlier in the health care debate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave Republicans in Congress just hours to read a thousand page, trillion dollar health care bill before voting on it. 

Now, according to news reports yesterday, she is laying plans to skip the trouble of voting on the bill altogether.  By using a procedural trick called ‘deem and pass,’ Nancy Pelosi is setting the stage to pass a massive health care overhaul without ever having a vote on it in the U.S. House. 

Constitutional scholars are understandably wary of the idea.  In a Politico story on Tuesday, George Washington University law professor Alan Morrisson said, “If I were advising somebody," on whether deem and pass would run into constitutional trouble, "I would say to them, ‘Don’t do it.’”

These last, desperate moves by Nancy Pelosi to pass the health care bill by any means necessary illustrate the depth of the public’s disapproval of the proposed Democratic health reforms.  The American people want control of their own health decisions – not mandates from federal bureaucrats and government panels.  The American people want the right to choose their own doctors – not limits on the care they receive or the doctors they’re allowed to see. 

These attempts by Pelosi and House Democrats to pass their health bill without allowing the elected Representatives of the people the opportunity to cast their votes do not pass the smell test.  Please, call Speaker Pelosi today at 202-225-0100 and tell her to either give the U.S. House the opportunity to vote on the full bill or go back to the drawing board.  The American people demand nothing less.