Here's a good summary of what's going on with Rep. Louise Slaughter and company:

Under the "reconciliation" process that began yesterday afternoon, the
House is supposed to approve the Senate's Christmas Eve bill and then use
"sidecar" amendments to fix the things it doesn't like. Those amendments
would then go to the Senate under rules that would let Democrats pass them
while avoiding the ordinary 60-vote threshold for passing major
legislation. This alone is an abuse of traditional Senate process.

But Nancy Pelosi, fearing she does not have enough votes, commanded New
York Democrat Louise Slaughter, Chair of the House Rules Committee, to
insert what's known as a "self-executing rule," also known as a "hereby
rule." Under this procedural ruse, the House would then vote only once on
the reconciliation corrections, but not on the underlying Senate bill. If
those reconciliation corrections pass, the self-executing rule would say
that the Senate bill is presumptively approved by the House - even without a
formal up-or-down vote on the actual words of the Senate bill. This
two-votes-in-one gambit is a brazen affront to the plain language of the
Constitution, which is intended to require democratic accountability.
Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution says that in order for a "Bill"
to "become a Law," it "shall have passed the House of Representatives and
the Senate."

If Congress can now decide that the House can vote for one bill and the
Senate can vote for another, and the final result can be some arbitrary
hybrid, then we have abandoned one of Madison's core checks and balances.
If you must resort to tricks like this to pass this unpopular bill, YOU
MUST VOTE NO!!!! 


Here is an article on FoxNews about this.


Thanks to Sil at CNY912 for sharing that!