the house where any legislation has to go through a series of committees. most notably the rules committee. nancy pelosi controls it. there are democrats on the committee other than her. but she is the boss and she told the rules committee to explore the possibility of using the language to retroactively get the senate bill passed in the house without votes montgomery white house press secretary robert gibbs so the result would be the -- megyn: so the house would deem it passed and it would go up to barack obama for signature and it would be law? >> reporter: there would be a vote on the reconciliation package of fixes. these are corrections the president wanted made to the senate bill. and in those fixes and corrections there would be a line that says, by the way, the senate bill is deemed passed in the house, and now we are onto the reconciliation fixes package. that process would mean there