http://www.factcheck.org/2017/05/congress-exempt-gop-health-bill/
Read this, kinda makes some sense.
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But the reason for that exemption has nothing to do with trying to protect the insurance of members of Congress from the legislation. Rather, it is about trying to ease the passage of the bill. Republicans are seeking to pass the AHCA as a reconciliation bill, which would allow the Senate to pass legislation with a simple majority — 51 votes — rather than a filibuster-proof 60 votes (which would require Democratic help).
As the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget explained in a blog post, in order to not run afoul of the reconciliation rules, House committees drafting a bill cannot make changes that are the jurisdiction of other committees. Marc Goldwein, senior policy director of CRFB, told us Republicans likely feared a Senate parliamentarian might rule that a proposed insurance change for members of Congress would rightly fall to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — a ruling that could jeopardize the bill’s reconciliation status.
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I'll be glad when this reign is over.
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