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The Senate HELP Committee staff has filed an official copy of their draft legislation with the Senate clerk.  A friend and I were discussing today two possible tactical scenarios:

The weekend leak forced the majority staff to release their official text as damage control.  Under this scenario, filing the official copy is a damage mitigation strategy:  [...]

This page contains the most recent version of my list of “things you should know about the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill,” interspersed with parallel observations about the leaked outline of the House Democrats’ health care bill.
I will post each time I update this page, so you can track it incrementally.  If you bookmark this page, [...]

Now let’s look at last week’s farm bill procedural snafu.
Last Wednesday we thought the farm bill veto would be straightforward:

Congress passes the farm bill conference report and sends it to the President.  There are several steps in this process.

The bill is passed by both Houses.  That’s the “engrossed bill”.
This engrossed bill is then “enrolled”.  [...]