+Health Care | 802 days ago

Re: And Here We Go…

By Karen Tumulty

Jay, I’m a bit mystified by this assertion from former Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier in your post:

Dreier, though, defended his record saying there’s a big difference between self-executing amendments and self-enacting large pieces of legislation.

As I noted earlier, when the Republicans were running the House, Dreier himself was pretty aggressive with self-executing rules. Here’s how Don Wolfensberger, former staff director of the Rules Committee, described what he called “the mother of all self-executing rules” (my emphasis added):

+Senate | 802 days ago

And here we go…

By Jay Newton-Small

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. Here’s a brief guide to the health care final sprint (at least the schedule that we can predict) in the House over the next week: Monday 3pm This afternoon the fun will begin with an anticipated Congressional Budget Office score followed by* a House Budget Committee markup of the [...]

+Health Care | 804 days ago

Still More on Bending the Rules

By Karen Tumulty

The Slaughter Solution? Another name might be the Dreier Doctrine. Don Wolfensberger, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Congress Project (and former staff director of the House Rules Committee), took a look at this whole business of self-executing rules a few years back. He argues that it’s not at all unusual in these partisan times [...]