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LeftInTX

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28. I did some research and I think they may have regnaded.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 08:12 PM
Jan 2017
Looks like they were on board on January 9th:
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-10/breakaway-senate-republicans-push-to-delay-obamacare-repeal

Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee, Rob Portman of Ohio, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska offered an amendment Monday night to the budget resolution that would extend the target date for the committees to write an Obamacare repeal bill to March 3 from Jan. 27.


Then on Wed night/Thursday morning they all voted for that budget resolution which defunds Obamacare.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00026


Wednesday night's vote-a-rama was real sneaky.

Sorry to post a link from RedState, but they have a simple clear summary of the Senate budget resolution:

http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2017/01/12/breaking-midnight-session-senate-passes-budget-resolution-instruction-repeal-obamacare/
With a vote of 51 to 48, the Senate tonight passed the budget resolution that is a step toward repealing Obamacare. This bill instructs congressional committees to begin writing the Repeal bills.

Senator Rand Paul voted no with the Democrats. We’ll update the vote tally shortly.

This resolution is part of the process toward repeal. It triggers “reconciliation” and protects fiscal legislation from the filibuster, requiring only a simple majority.

Passage of the resolution was expected, and now the GOP can, using the same method used to pass Obamacare, repeal it. The bill instructs the House and Senate committees to begin crafting the bills that will dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and will now go to the House for a vote, where it is also expected to pass.



And then Sen Corker posted this on the 12th:
https://www.corker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-list?ID=2C4B37DC-B7DB-49E4-B645-D4F21ECF5945

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, today released the following statement after voting for final passage of the 2017 budget resolution (S. Con. Res. 3), which will guide the legislative process to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Title II of the 2017 budget resolution instructs House and Senate committees with jurisdiction over the ACA to develop legislation that would reduce the budget deficit by at least $1 billion each over the next ten years. The resulting reconciliation legislation is expected to include language to repeal and replace the ACA. Corker tonight withdrew his amendment, which would have extended the deadline for reconciliation instructions, following assurances from Senate leadership that Congress will follow a responsible timeline for replacing the health care law.


Sorry if this post is so confusing.......because it is confusing. Did they completely regnade or is there any hope?
I will never understand them either. Cracklin Charlie Jan 2017 #1
I work with children with disabilities. The lousy fucking bastards are taking away the Squinch Jan 2017 #2
K & R 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2017 #3
How does treating them all like the plague, help your friend? mythology Jan 2017 #4
We won the popular vote by 3,000,000. We lost the Electoral College by 70,000.... DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #5
YES! Hekate Jan 2017 #21
What YOU said! . . . .n/t annabanana Jan 2017 #24
My only point is we don't have to make radical changes. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #25
They need to wake up, not be begged to share their selfish feelings... bettyellen Jan 2017 #11
I agree...n/t TrekLuver Jan 2017 #30
Call your congresscritter crazycatlady Jan 2017 #6
My congresscritter , thankfully, is Brad Sherman. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #7
Call the five GOP who are "on the fence" bettyellen Jan 2017 #12
My friend lives in Nevada. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #13
Senators Corker, Portman, Collins, Cassidy and Murkowski are worth contacting!! bettyellen Jan 2017 #14
Thank you for this! LeftInTX Jan 2017 #16
I can't find the link w contact info, ugh! bettyellen Jan 2017 #17
I can find their contact info LeftInTX Jan 2017 #19
That would make an awesome OP!! Do it!!! bettyellen Jan 2017 #20
I did some research and I think they may have regnaded. LeftInTX Jan 2017 #28
The thing is - the funding is gone but Obamacare is still there and shld be harder to overturn.... bettyellen Jan 2017 #29
Here is new advice from Sen Warrens office! With numbers ... and yes, bettyellen Jan 2017 #31
Thank you so much!!! LeftInTX Jan 2017 #32
We ALL have to help each other out now- pass it on! bettyellen Jan 2017 #33
The Republicans are the party of inhumanity, end of story. Guilded Lilly Jan 2017 #8
They want us to die. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #9
This makes me so angry I want to scream! smirkymonkey Jan 2017 #10
They voted for this Horse with no Name Jan 2017 #15
The deplorables triumph over the expendables bucolic_frolic Jan 2017 #18
Republicans only care about doing the right thing MurrayDelph Jan 2017 #22
GOP psychokillers Fast Walker 52 Jan 2017 #23
my brother and sister MFM008 Jan 2017 #26
Paul Ryan, the GOP and Donald Trump are getting revenge. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #27
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