Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100316:15:02:00
On it? >> reporter: well, they would do this through the rules committee, it's a practice known as deeming or what's called a self-executing rule. congress has been doing stuff like this for hundreds of years, and back in the '70s and '80s it got kind of acute. in the rules committee of the house, completely controlled by the majority -- in this case the house democrats -- can essentially say that when they put together the language to deal with the reconciliation package, the package of fixes, they can deem that the senate bill has already been passed by the house. that issue would have to be...
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