The San Antonio Express-News has editorialized wisely in calling for the end to the Hastert Rule.
The link to the editorial is here:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/editorials/article/Hastert-rule-undercuts-democracy-4660269.php
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner is going to invoke the rule before allowing the House to vote on immigration reform. The rule — named after former Speaker Dennis Hastert — requires a majority of RepublicanĀ House members to favor a bill before it goes to a vote. Never mind that the bill already has a majority of support among the entire body, which includes Democrats. Most GOP members have to agreed to it, according to Boehner.
Suspend the rule, Mr. Speaker, and let the House vote on whether to reform the nation’s broken-down immigration system.
Look at it this way, Mr. Speaker: Your GOP colleagues in the Texas Senate suspended its own two-thirds rule to vote on a bill restricting abortion in Texas. If they can bend the rules here in the Lone Star State, you can do it on Capitol Hill.
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