BREAKING: The House has invoked martial law. If the Senate passes skinny repeal, the House can vote

[MelissaB]

BREAKING: The House has invoked martial law. If the Senate passes skinny repeal, the House can vote on it without notice.

Link to tweet

[Thrill]

1. Democrats better remember all this shit when they get full power again

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[Me.]

2. What?

[nolabear]

3. Graham speaking to it right now.

SCATHINGLY.

[hatrack]

5. Lindsay Graham will save us with his magic, scathing words, huh?

And then he'll vote to pass this piece of shit.

That'll be fun.

[nolabear]

8. He just said he wouldn't. They'll try to pass something but not this.

Jesus, at least listen before you go ballistic.

[hatrack]

9. Not ballistic, realistic . . .

There is nothing they will not try, there is nothing they will not lie about.

Cardiac paddles, more adrenaline shots to the heart, intubation, heart-lung machine, they'll do whatever they can, whether legal or not, to keep this abomination "alive" long enough to ram it through so that they can fuck as many people as possible.

They're Republicans. It's. What. They. Do.

[nolabear]

13. Okay fine.

[XRubicon]

12. I think he is covering his butt

Saying he will vote for it but only on the promise that the house won't pass it as is.

[hedda_foil]

4. Swell. Just super dooper swell.

[Leghorn21]

6. A reply to Topher's tweet says:

@ForgottenBeauty

The use of martial law refers to bypassing the typical procedure that requires the House to wait a day after the Rules Committee produces a rule establishing floor debate parameters before voting.

Instead, the House can now vote on the procedural measure on the same day.

[Glimmer of Hope]

7. If skinny is doa, then what?

[onenote]

11. For clarity's sake this isn't "martial law" in the sense most people think of

it's a term used to refer to procedure where the House waives a standing rule that requires a day to pass before certain legislation can be taken up for a vote.

It's not a new thing and has been invoked on multiple occasions over the years both by Democrats when they controlled the House and by Republicans. More often by the Republicans.

[jonno99]

14. Thanks for the explanation. nt