What is the largest, most prolific piece of legislation passed by Republicans using "Deem and Pass"?

And how does it differ from what is being proposed by Pelosi and Slaughter?What is the largest, most prolific piece of legislation passed by Republicans using "Deem and Pass"?It differs because the so-called Health Care Bill, is over 2,700 pages of risky, costly, experimental plans, that most officials haven't even read; including such controversial issues such as funding abortion, and taking over all student loans away from private lenders.



This is a power grab - plain and simple.What is the largest, most prolific piece of legislation passed by Republicans using "Deem and Pass"?Deficit Reduction Act of 2005

The senate passed a significantly different bill than passed by the house and the senate bill was passed on to the President for his signature.



The difference is, Democrats aren't using this tactic as right-wingers claim.

The house and the senate will approve the same version of the bill.

this is just more right-wing hub-bub.



http://mediamatters.org/research/2010031鈥?/a>What is the largest, most prolific piece of legislation passed by Republicans using "Deem and Pass"?The republicans used it several times for raising the ceiling on the national debt (you have to do this a lot when you finance a trillion dollar war with borrowed money, and it's embarrassing each time). See http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organizat鈥?/a>



They also used it for something to do with immigration reform, but I only have a partial citation: http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/0鈥?/a>





"When Republicans took power in 1995, they soon lost their aversion to self-executing rules and proceeded to set new records under Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). There were 38 and 52 self-executing rules in the 104th and 105th Congresses (1995-1998), making up 25 percent and 35 percent of all rules, respectively. Under Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) there were 40, 42 and 30 self-executing rules in the 106th, 107th and 108th Congresses (22 percent, 37 percent and 22 percent, respectively). Thus far in the 109th Congress, self-executing rules make up about 16 percent of all rules."

-- 2006, Don Wolfensberger, former chief of staff for the House Rules Committee under Republicans, http://wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_鈥?/a>



I'm curious about all this emphasis on "bills of this magnitude." What is the definition of a "large" vs a "small" bill? Is there a constitutional basis for this "magnitude" notion? Did the framers of the constitution specify a different procedure for voting on a high "magnitude" bill? Please, can some conservative scholar explain??

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