document: You ca n't deem-and-pass without the Senate I 'd enjoy reading the citation of constitutional authority for this : `` The bill then says if the Senate does not act , then H.R. 1 -LSB- the House-passed bill that cuts $ 61 billion -RSB- will be the law of the land . In addition to that , it says that if all else fails , and the Senate brings about a shutdown , then members should not get their pay . '' That 's House Majority Leader Eric Cantor describing his `` Government Shutdown Prevention Act . '' The problem is , this would be blatantly unconstitutional : The Senate needs to pass the same piece of legislation the House does , and the president needs to either sign it or have his veto overturned . That 's how deem-and-pass worked with the health-care law , for instance : Both the Senate and the House passed the same pieces of legislation , and then the president signed them . But it seems Cantor merely misspoke . I 've clarified with both his office and Boehner 's office that they believe the Senate and the president would still play their traditional roles . That means deem-and-pass is n't , as Cantor suggests , an alternative to actually striking a compromise . It 's just an effort to message the shutdown that 'll happen if a law is n't passed . The problem for Cantor is that by misdescribing how the gambit would work , he 's drawing attention to the fact that it ca n't . At the end of the day , we need an actual deal here . There 's no other option .
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