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发帖数: 61690 | 1 Senate GOP rejects House Obamacare bill
'Any bill that has been posted less than 24 hours ... needs to be viewed
with suspicion,' Sen. Lindsey Graham says.
After all the energy the House just expended on ramming through its
Obamacare repeal, the Senate is about to start over.
“We’re writing a Senate bill and not passing the House bill,” said Sen.
Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn). “We’ll take whatever good ideas we find there
that meet our goals.”
They need to end up with a bill that can win over 50 of the 52 GOP senators
in the narrowly divided chamber. And even if they accomplish that, their
bill could be unpalatable to House conservatives. The House bill squeaked
through on a 217-213 vote.
The two chambers have not coordinated much in recent weeks as the House —
with an assist from the White House — frantically worked to kick the health
care bill to the other side of the Capitol. Senate Republicans say they’ll
take the time they need to understand the House bill’s ramifications. And
they will insist on a score from the Congressional Budget Office before
voting, unlike the House. |
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