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Gop Sources :@SenateMajLdr and gop senators agreeing inside lunch now NOT to vote on Graham Cassidy. (Original Post) Donkees Sep 2017 OP
Senate won't vote on GOP health care bill, sources tell CNN Donkees Sep 2017 #1
Great news greeny2323 Sep 2017 #2
Democrats should start calling it Obamacare now, instead of ACA.... ;) OnDoutside Sep 2017 #3
... but are they done pouncing this week Donkees Sep 2017 #5
How's that crow taste Mitch? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2017 #4
"We're coming back to this after taxes," @LindseyGrahamSC says Donkees Sep 2017 #6

Donkees

(31,418 posts)
1. Senate won't vote on GOP health care bill, sources tell CNN
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 02:27 PM
Sep 2017

By Lauren Fox and MJ Lee, CNN
Updated 2:07 PM ET, Tue September 26, 2017

Washington (CNN)The Senate will not vote on the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal Obamacare, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Republicans in a closed-door meeting, three sources told CNN.

McConnell met with lawmakers Tuesday to take stock of where his members are on the proposal and make the call once and for all if Graham-Cassidy, the latest bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, will get a vote in the Senate.

On Monday, Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, finally came out against the bill, a position she'd been teetering toward for days. Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Rand Paul of Kentucky also opposed to the measure.

The calculations for health care are agonizing for McConnell. Putting a controversial bill on the floor without the votes exposes members to political fallout and attack ads. Many Republicans haven't even taken a public position on Graham-Cassidy, a bill that the Congressional Budget Office said Monday would drastically cut Medicaid and lead to millions of people not having health insurance compared to the status quo.

But some senators have been pushing for a vote regardless of outcome.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/26/politics/health-care-republican-senate-vote/index.html?sr=twCNN092617health-care-republican-senate-vote0209PMVODtop

 

greeny2323

(590 posts)
2. Great news
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 02:29 PM
Sep 2017

This is great news. We protect Obamacare again. We win again. They lose again. They look evil and incompetent again.

Win win win.

Donkees

(31,418 posts)
6. "We're coming back to this after taxes," @LindseyGrahamSC says
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 02:44 PM
Sep 2017
"We're coming back to this after taxes," @LindseyGrahamSC says, conceding defeat for this week on #GrahamCassidy but not giving up on bill.



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