Fox News acknowledges House will "vote" on Senate bill
March 18, 2010 5:41 pm ET by Matt Gertz
A funny thing happened while Neil Cavuto was engaging in his absurd sideshow about the length of the health care legislation: Fox News inadvertently admitted that the House will be voting on passage of the Senate bill. During one of Cavuto's several inane segments about how his speedreader was reviewing the Senate health care bill and the accompanying reconciliation bill, the following caption aired:
Despite the best efforts of Fox News congressional correspondent Carl Cameron, among others, to painstakingly explain that a majority vote of the House would be necessary to use the legislative procedure known as the "self-executing rule" to pass the Senate health bill, Fox News' anchors have been pushing the falsehood that the House would be passing the bill without a vote.
I guess this puts paid to that talking point. Right?
The vote will PASS both the core bill that the Senate has already voted on and the revisions that the House has created and the CBO just scored relevant to its deficit reduction. Then the Senate will pass the revisions/amendments that the House crafted.