GOP Leaders Tout Motion To Proceed As 'Beginning' Of O'Care Repeal Process

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published JULY 25, 2017 3:56 PM
After Senate Republicans voted to proceed Tuesday afternoon on the repeal of Obamacare, GOP leaders touted the move as the “beginning” of a long, open process to repeal and replace the health care law.

“This is just the beginning,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters during a brief press conference after the vote. “We’re not out here to spike the football.”

McConnell said he expects the Senate to finish debating on the legislation by the end of the week, but he would not provide details about which bills or amendments would be offered on the floor. He said that it’s “impossible to predict” what will happen in such a process.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, referenced what he said was an “important message” in Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) speech after the motion to proceed vote, in which he called for bipartisanship. Cornyn called on Democrats to help build a bipartisan health care bill, arguing that “could be the beginning of that healing process” for a “polarized” institution.

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[LBM20]

1. Win more elections. The protests obviously did not work. Fix the party and win elections.

[Hortensis]

2. McConnell's very competent and dangerous, even if he's proved

he's no magician. Debts to those-who-are-never-mentioned-but-must-be-served apparently means failure again would require more tries until the pubs succeed or die trying. Quid already received, quo seriously overdue and the pressure apparently very much on.

One would think McConnell would never be primaried, irreplaceable, but it'd only take Charles Koch in a bad mood to retire him. His Chinese funders would move seamlessly to others serving them.

[katmondoo]

3. John McCain is a traitor.

He could have stopped the bill but did not. I no longer feel sorry for him.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "its 'impossible to predict' what will happen in such a process."

That's because this is NOT "regular order". They should have had open hearings, committee meetings for drafts and mark-ups, votes of the final draft out of committee, then send it over to any other committee needing to contribute/mark-up (and have them vote it out of committee), and THEN send that to the floor for debate and further amendments from the "committee of the whole". They did NONE of that.

[forgotmylogin]

5. Right.

This is akin to teaching someone how to skydive as they are standing at the open plane door at 30,000 feet.

[area51]

6. (Quote) We're not out here to spike the football.

No, you're there to give tax breaks to the rich, and you decided the way to do that, is to kill Americans.