Former House Rules Committee chairman Rep. David Dreier, R-CA, this afternoon called for “a clean up-or-down vote that will allow the American people to see who is supporting this Senate [health care reform] bill and who is not supporting it.”

Dreir, who in 2007 became the Ranking GOP member of the panel now chaired by Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, rejected a suggestion from a reporter during a Capitol Hill news conference that voters don’t care about procedural issues like the controversial “Slaughter Solution” rule that would “deem” the Senate health care bill to have been passed by the House even though no recorded vote on it is taken, as required by the Constitution.