Professor Hewitt Publishes Article on Health Care Legislation
October 13, 2009
In an article in the San Francisco Examiner entitled “Will 2010 voters recall cloture vote? Not if GOP can help it,” Professor Hugh Hewitt discusses his concerns over the GOP’s inability to explain to voters the seriousness of the Senate’s possible cloture vote on upcoming health care legislation. A cloture vote places a time limit on considerations of a bill and prevents a filibuster by three-fifths of the full Senate or 60 votes. Professor Hewitt states, “the vote on whether to end debate, which requires 60 ayes to pass — is everything in this struggle to preserve American medicine.” Read more…