The rule has to be approved first.

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx

House & Senate to Vote on $789B Stimulus Legislation
Today

HOUSE:
The House is debating the rules for considera-
tion on H.R. 1. A final vote is expected this afternoon.

SENATE:
According to Majority Leader Reid, final vote is planned for late afternoon or early evening.

The woman is clueless as to what is really above her pay grade and thinks she is in charge and everybody else needs to kiss her rings

nail…head…

Pelosi thinks this is a monarchy and she’s the queen.

Well he ought to know since he wrote the exact path to break it just like was done but back around 1970.

If Pelosi is going to Rome it is because she wants to attend the meeting of the G7 reps who the Timmy Treasury is going to meet with to hammer out the combined response to how to deal with this mess.

The woman is clueless as to what is really above her pay grade and thinks she is in charge and everybody else needs to kiss her rings.

My sources in DC say that AFTER the conference committee signed off on the final package after midnight, that some changes were still made to the package.

Now for that to happen, each member of the conference would have to be contacted about the change and give their approval for it.

IF some K street types got wind of something they did not like (and there are plenty saying that) they could do some heavy arm twisting to get the post facto changes made and approved.

As to the bill having to be in final legislative form prior to debate, not totally sure on that one.

But the current form at the House rules site sure is far from that.

As RedState posted this am at 5:30 you would have to read 1.5 pages per minute to get it read by the 9 am Friday vote debate…

According to Drudge, Nancy wants to take off for Rome and wants to shove the vote through. I would hope the need for the committee to sign off on changes (no doubt made by K Street last night) would need approval. And someone will have the backbone to refuse. It doesn’t look as if current House rules give much opportunity for stalling for a full read-through.

The current form of the bill is supposed to be all marked up with penned amendments, cross-outs, and pages with “confidential” stamped on them. (RS)

The bill worked out in negotiations between the House and the Senate reduced the tax cuts from 42 percent of the cost of the $838 billion bill passed by the Senate, to just 35 percent of the $789.5 billion compromise bill.

Correspondingly, the spending portion of the bill rose from 58 percent in the original Senate measure to 65 percent.