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Month: July 2017
Trump blasts lawmakers for voting down ‘skinny’ ObamaCare repeal
President Trump early Friday morning blasted lawmakers for failing to pass the Senate GOP's "skinny" ObamaCare repeal bill, doubling down on his past call to "let ObamaCare implode.""3 Republicans and 48 Democrats...
‘Skinny Repeal’ of Obamacare Fails to Pass…
MSNBC's Garett Haake reports on the bill's failure to pass in the Senate.
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Friday briefing: Dark side of the Mooch – and Obamacare stands
White House warfare as Anthony Scaramucci lets fly … Republicans fail in latest healthcare repeal attempt … and have humans got it better than ever?
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Reporter drops notebook, hits GOP senator on head during late-night session
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) ws hit in the head by a reporter's notebook after it fell from the press gallery during the Senate's late-night session to vote on their "skinny" ObamaCare repeal bill....
McCain kills GOP’s ‘skinny’ backup ObamaCare repeal plan
McCain cast the "no" vote two days after a dramatic return to the Senate floor.
John McCain sinks ‘skinny repeal’ of Obamacare health act
Arizona senator, whose war record Trump mocked, deals major blow to president’s agenda in dramatic late-night vote
Arizona senator John McCain torpedoed the Obamacare repeal bill – and with it Donald Trump’s legislative agenda – in a night of high drama on Capitol Hill.
McCain’s vote against the bill in the early hours of Friday morning delivered a major setback for Republicans who have spent seven years vowing to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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BREAKING: Republicans defect, kill Senate effort to repeal Obamacare
Obamacare lives to see another day.CREDIT: Screenshot/C-SPAN2
The Senate voted against the Health Care Freedom Act (HCFA) early Friday morning, with a vote of 49–51.
The so-called “skinny repeal” bill made serious cuts to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and would have left 16 million people uninsured by 2026. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John McCain (R-AZ), and Susan Collins (R-ME) were the only...
Cornyn: GOP health-care bill ‘is not perfect but it’s better than the status quo’
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) on July 28 said the GOP health-care bill “is not perfect but it’s better than the status quo” under the Affordable Care Act.
The 3 most compelling moments from the Senate’s late night health care debate
Things got heated while the GOP rammed through their bill.Demonstrators rally outside of the Capitol as the Republican majority in Congress remains stymied by their inability to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace “Obamacare” because of opposition and wavering within the GOP ranks, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 27, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Cliff Owen
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