Pence Breaks Tie as Senate Votes to Begin Debating Obamacare Repeal

[Stuart G]

Source: NYT

WASHINGTON The Senate narrowly voted on Tuesday to begin debate on a bill to repeal major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, taking a pivotal step forward after the dramatic return of Senator John McCain, who cast a crucial vote despite his diagnosis of brain cancer.

Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote.

The 51-50 vote came only a week after the Republican effort to dismantle a pillar of former President Barack Obama’s legacy appeared all but doomed. It marked an initial win for President Trump, who pushed, cajoled and threatened senators over the last days to at least begin debating the repeal of the health care law.

But even with that successful step, it is unclear whether Republicans will have the votes they need to uproot the law that has provided health insurance to millions of Americans. The Senate will now begin debating, amending and ultimately voting in the coming days on legislation that would have a profound impact on the American health care system.



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[hamsterjill]

1. I couldn't help but notice the itty bitty gavel.

Tiny Hands # 2??????

[Stuart G]

2. According to NYT...here is a link to that story.. the vote was 50 to 50

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/us/politics/senate-health-care.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

[hamsterjill]

3. Yes, it was 50 to 50.

Pence broke the tie. I was watching C-Span and he hit the desk with an itty, bitty gavel. His puny little hands (just like Trump's tiny hands) probably can't handle a regular size instrument!

[turbinetree]

4. They are now reading the fascist turtle amendment attacking the social security and the medicare

from 1985.

Hey Kentucky, Arizona, Florida , WisCONsin, Ohio, and any of the other states with recipients of your social security and medicare, you haven't seen anything -----------YET, you dumb motherfuckers that keep voting these asshole in are going to scratching your pea brain pin heads trying to figure out to to blame, look in the fucking mirror and then look at what you vote into office .

Indiana has the worse health care in the nation you dumb motherfuckers and your fucking criminal traitor deplorable communists sympathizer broke the tie, have you dumb motherfuckers figured it out yet, they want to get your entitlement paychecks, and this Medicaid fiasco coming down the pike is the first step ----------they don't want you to have any of your money in your pocket and they want you to DIE

[cstanleytech]

5. Well to be fair they were honest about the there being death panels

they just forgot to the mention that they were going to the ones sitting on said panels and deciding that millions of americians deserved to die for not being rich.

[turbinetree]

10. This is why we should have publicly funded elections and they only need to take six weeks

instead of two years and fours years of the media being able to make a buck off this stuff-amazing

[cstanleytech]

11. Publicly funded elections might help but requiring a politician running for re election to win

a progressively higher % of the vote might work better.
For example say you have a politician running for a 3rd term in the House and last time they won with 46% of the vote this time they need a significantly higher % say 56% and the next time they need even higher % and so on and so on.

[BigmanPigman]

6. My power went out 45 min ago

during McCain's speech. I am using my cell phone now. Did Pence really break the vote? I thought the 3 voted NO but I didn't see Penve. This takes forever to type on a tiny phone and I don't text so my big fingers hit 3keys at a time. Maybe the power grid was hacked by the commies. Ha...they win again.

[Stuart G]

7. Yes ...the vote was 50 to 50..Pence broke the vote..according to the lead story..

That is all I know.........

[C Moon]

8. If it's not obvious to everyone that we are in a class war...

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this had better convince them of that.
Their next stop is Social Security and Medicaid.

[vi5]

9. Again.....what happened to 60 votes?

I thought 60 votes were needed to bring anything to the floor?

Or does that just apply when Democrats are in charge of things?

[not fooled]

12. the koch bros are running the country

Democracy my ass.

Dumbfucks who vote for pukes are taking the rest of us down with them.