House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's “Slaughter solution” for enacting healthcare reform without a traditional House vote on an identically worded Senate bill would be open to constitutional challenge, experts say, according to a politico.com
report.
“If I were advising somebody," on whether deem and pass would run into constitutional trouble, "I would say to them, ‘Don’t do it,’” warned Alan Morrison, a professor at the George Washington University Law School.