{"id":5978,"date":"2010-07-02T19:49:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5978"},"modified":"2010-07-02T19:49:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T23:49:32","slug":"the-unwelcome-return-of-deem-and-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5978\/the-unwelcome-return-of-deem-and-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unwelcome Return of &#8220;Deem and Pass&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was once mostly a little used device is now becoming the Democrat majority\u2019s favorite way to pass legislation.\u00a0 So-called \u201cdeem and pass\u201d \u2013 the highly controversial maneuver that greased the skids for ObamaCare\u2019s passage \u2013 was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=37893\" target=\"_blank\">used late last night to pass a $1.1 TRILLION dollar budget<\/a>.\u00a0 The corruption of the legislative process was doubly dirty because the non-voted measure was added to an emergency war spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>And just in case you\u2019re wondering, this is <em>the<\/em> main operating budget for the federal government this year.\u00a0 House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) sent up a smoke signal a few days ago that this kind of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/economy-a-budget\/105825-budget-enforcement-resolution-rep-steny-hoyer\" target=\"_blank\">budget enforcement resolution<\/a>&#8221; might happen; especially since Democrats think American voters are too stupid to realize that \u201cpassing\u201d a bill is the same as \u201cvoting on\u201d a bill.<\/p>\n<p>November can\u2019t get here fast enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was once mostly a little used device is now becoming the Democrat majority\u2019s favorite way to pass legislation.\u00a0 So-called \u201cdeem and pass\u201d \u2013 the highly controversial maneuver that greased the skids for ObamaCare\u2019s passage \u2013 was used late last night to pass a $1.1 TRILLION dollar budget.\u00a0 The corruption of the legislative process was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,84,970,783],"class_list":["post-5978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-deem-and-pass","tag-steny-hoyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5980,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions\/5980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}