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Moderate Dems Forced Pelosi to Use Suspect Parliamentary Rule to Advance $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) advanced President Joe Biden’s unprecedented $3.5 trillion spending blueprint Tuesday but only after resorting to a parliamentary maneuver of doubtful constitutionality. Known alternatively as the “self-executing rule” and “deem and pass,” the maneuver has been used only occasionally by majorities of both parties since 1933. But debate still…


Moderate Dems Force Pelosi to Use Suspect Parliamentary Rule to Advance $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill

News Analysis Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) advanced President Joe Biden’s unprecedented $3.5 trillion spending blueprint on Aug. 24, but only after resorting to a parliamentary maneuver of doubtful constitutionality. Known alternatively as the “self-executing rule” and “deem and pass,” the maneuver has been used only occasionally by majorities of both parties since…


Moderate Democrats Force Pelosi to Use Suspect Parliamentary Rule to Advance $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill

News Analysis Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) advanced President Joe Biden’s unprecedented $3.5 trillion spending blueprint on Aug. 24, but only after resorting to a parliamentary maneuver of doubtful constitutionality. Known alternatively as the “self-executing rule” and “deem and pass,” the maneuver has been used only occasionally by majorities of both parties since…