Key Trumpcare Holdout Says He's A Yes If Guaranteed A Vote On His Amendment
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published JULY 20, 2017 2:50 PM
For months, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has been a staunch critic of Senate Republicans replacement for the Affordable Care Act, publicly blasting it as Obamacare-lite because it leaves many of the laws taxes and some of its regulations in place and allocates billions of dollars for insurance market stabilization that he derides as a bailout.
Paul has blocked previous iterations of the bill from ever seeing debate on the Senate floor, and was generally considered an un-winnable vote. But on Thursday, he said he would relent and support a motion to proceedif GOP leaders guaranteed him a vote on an amendment that would swap in the 2015 Obamacare repeal bill.
Despite widespread reluctance from both moderate and hardline GOP senators, with Paul on board the bill is much more likely to come to the floor next week.
If they want my vote, they have to at least agree that were going to at least vote on clean repeal, he told reporters Thursday afternoon, adding that he will not be satisfied if the option is voted on late in the debate process. Theres a difference between saying you can offer it at three in the morning on the fourth day, versus up front we have a vote on clean repeal, maybe BCRA, maybe Collins-Cassidy. I want equal billing, up front with other choices.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rand-paul-relents-obamacare-repeal
Purrfessor
(1,188 posts)they can get their way?
Answer: As many as it takes.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)Matthew28
(1,796 posts)you don't really care about the sick or poor very much. All power to the rich barons and nothing for the poor is what it is all about.
benld74
(9,904 posts)geretogo
(1,281 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,172 posts)would be against health insurance for all. Whatever happened to "first do no harm"?
Alt-Orange
(94 posts)...Nor do I care to figure out anymore, why these d-bags are so hellbent on destroying lives. Fix the goddamn problems that exist in the ACA and move on. But I guess putting country and it's people over party is to hard for these assholes.
Sorry for the language, but this shit needs to stop.
riversedge
(70,186 posts)Justice
(7,185 posts)Only moderates can stop it. Don't know if they have the courage.