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Defend America on Sunday, March 21, 2010 7:41:54 PM
Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.) said Saturday that
he fought hard to oppose the controversial “deem and pass” procedure to
pass health care reform because he wanted to avoid a potential judicial
challenge to the measure.
“When the situation is so hot and there’s so many
people that are so angry, that you need to have an abundance of
caution, and abundance of care, to make sure we don’t get the situation
where the Supreme Court is deciding this later,” he said Saturday
evening as he left Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) office.
Cardoza announced earlier Saturday that he would vote “yes” on the bill.
But the Rules Committee member said he didn’t want
to have a Bush v. Gore situation — referring to the controversial 2000
presidential election that ended in a Supreme Court decision — in which
the nation’s high court would review the procedure of another
government branch.
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