Senate Democrats plan to intensify criticism of emerging GOP health bill
Senate Democrats plan to ramp up opposition Monday to the emerging Republican health-care bill with a series of mostly symbolic moves including speeches that will go late into the evening and a push to slow other Senate business to a crawl.
The aim, Democrats said, is to draw attention to the secretive process Republican leaders are using to craft their bill and argue that the GOP proposals would hurt Americans. The Democrats lack the power to prevent a vote and they don’t have the numbers to defeat a bill without Republican defections. So they are focusing this week on nonbinding protests.
he initiative comes amid a broader push by allied advocacy groups to try to pressure Republican senators not to vote for the bill, which aims to repeal and replace key parts of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) can only afford to lose two Republican votes.
It also comes on the eve of a closely watched special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, which Republicans are trying to hold. A Democratic victory could jolt the debate by raising new questions about President Trump and the Republican agenda, in which health care is playing a feature role.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-democrats-plan-to-intensify-criticism-against-emerging-gop-health-bill/2017/06/19/6f1d3d66-5500-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?utm_term=.434cbb6de6ca
Go Dems! Do it!
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