Pelosi and Waxman explain to Bush how a bill becomes a law - and how it doesn’t

Markos highlights a section from The Hill's email newsletter: Senior House Democrats have again demanded that the White House disclose whether it knew of the clerical error that continues to plague the deficit-reduction bill signed by President Bush last month. Democrats have suspected that Bush was aware when he signed the legislation that the House and Senate had passed slightly different versions. A Wall Street Journal article published Wednesday bolstered those suspicious by quoting a senior House GOP aide as saying congressional leaders consulted the White House about the discrepancy. The House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) wrote a letter to the president that included a primer on congressional procedure: "A bill is not a law unless the same version is passed by both the House and Senate and signed by the President," they wrote. "There is now growing evidence that your action on February 8 breached this fundamental tenet of our democracy with the full knowledge of high-ranking congressional and White House officials," Pelosi and Waxman assert. Waxman wrote at letter to White House Chief of Staff Andy Card last week, asking the same questions: if the administration knew there was a discrepancy between the two versions of the bill. -- kos observes that the GOP really really really doesn't want another vote on the legislation as November approaches - it barely squeaked by in the first place