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haele

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3. They can. They can also accept it, gut it, and overlay their own bill.

Reply to katmondoo (Original post)

Thu May 4, 2017, 05:40 PM

May 2017

Rejecting it only means the House can try again.

To be truly evil and give the GOP the illusion of a "win", the Senate can write their own milder, much moderate R&R bill - hell, they can just cut and paste the ACA on it with a few tweeks to give "ObamaCare" a new name, and replace the House bill with theirs, and send it back for reconciliation with the House.

Once it gets past reconciliation, then Trump can sign it, and everyone will be happy except the "Freedom Caucus" Teahaidists who wanted to just slowly kill off the undeserving poor and disabled who are mooching off "their taxes", and set up their own regional mall-church potentates and rule like Chechnyan dictators.

Haele

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Can the Senate just send the bill back to the House [View all] katmondoo May 2017 OP

All McConnell has to say is NO! yallerdawg May 2017 #1

I think the aswer is it can die in the Senate katmondoo May 2017 #2

They can. They can also accept it, gut it, and overlay their own bill. haele May 2017 #3

I suspect any "milder or moderate bill", bill would NOT be accepted by the still_one May 2017 #5

To just "send the bill back" DeminPennswoods May 2017 #4