Yep, lol, just so it's clear the "WHY WASN'T I TOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" at the bottom of mine was meant to suggest a Trump rant after he was finally informed .. i was thinking, too, that many of the truckies would be wondering why he hadn't been told before he had spoken to them .. unless it happened at exactly the same time .. :)
That's assuming a call to Trump would not have had to be routed through Moscow.
Sorry voters, I said it 68 times, but didn't really care. Thought it would be so simple, but now... .. Shrug.
Who Stopped the Republican Health Bill?
By WILSON ANDREWS, MATTHEW BLOCH and HAEYOUN PARK MARCH 24, 2017
33 Republicans who would not budge from their decisions to vote “no” on the health care bill were key to causing its collapse. They can be divided into three broad categories:
10 Moderates .. 8 Other Republicans .. 15 Hard-liners
They were united in their resistance to the bill, but actually came from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum.
Dave Brat has the name best fitting his position in the Freedom Caucus camp.
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Paul Ryan just canceled the House health bill vote in a major defeat for President Trump
Updated by Andrew Prokopandrew@vox.com Mar 24, 2017, 3:38pm EDT
First, there are other things to do, and many Republicans seem to want to move on to those other things. That number includes President Trump himself, who demanded this vote be held before a deal was in hand because he’s tired of negotiating on health care and wants to move on to other priorities like tax reform. (Health reform has never been an issue particularly close to Trump’s heart.) So if the urgency to pass a health bill dissipates now, it may never return.
Second, this defeat came partly at the hands of House conservatives. Any revised bill that could win them over would be more likely to alienate moderates. It would also be even less likely to pass the Senate than Ryan’s original version (which was incredibly unlikely to pass the Senate).
Third, it may be now or never to use the special Senate process that could pass health care with a majority vote. That’s because Congress wants to pass a new budget resolution that would put tax reform on that “budget reconciliation” track. But the chamber’s rules seem to hold that the Senate can only have one revenue-related bill set up for reconciliation at a time — which means they’d be giving up their opportunity to use it for a health bill, and that any future health bill would need 60 votes to beat a filibuster.
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What does President Trump do now?
We don’t yet know what will come next, but Trump has signaled in recent days that he’ll wash his hands of health care.
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