Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says the method congressional Democrats are considering to push through health-care reform may be unconstitutional.
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Cuccinelli says that the deem-and-pass approach "would raise grave constitutional questions."
Cuccinelli wrote, "Based upon media interviews and statements which I have seen, you are considering this approach because it might somehow shield members of Congress from taking a recorded vote on an overwhelmingly unpopular Senate bill.
"This is an improper purpose under the bicameralism requirements of Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution, one of the purposes of which is to make our representatives fully accountable for their votes."
Cuccinelli says such a maneuver may only invite another legal challenge from the states, perhaps even Virginia, to a health-care package out of Washington.
Cuccinelli recently challenged the Environmental Protection Agency's statement that global warming is a danger to humans and angered Virginia public college leaders when he said that policies protecting gays against discrimination are invalid without legislative approval.
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