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no_hypocrisy

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8. Bait-and-Switch

Reply to stopbush (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 1, 2017, 06:22 AM

Dec 2017

Same with the ACA/Obamacare supplemental stipend. McConnell will promise to put it up for a vote, but he doesn't control that it will be passed. Tax reform gets its 50th vote and Collins goes home to Maine, claiming "I tried . . . . . "

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Susan Collins proposed 4 amendments. [View all] Egnever Dec 2017 OP

The usual trick is to include these amendments in the Senate version stopbush Dec 2017 #1

Good point Egnever Dec 2017 #4

Bait-and-Switch no_hypocrisy Dec 2017 #8

+1 dalton99a Dec 2017 #11

she needs to do the honorable thing and JUST VOTE NO Skittles Dec 2017 #2

The jury is still out on her. BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #3

Those amendments do not not even begin to make this train wreck ThoughtCriminal Dec 2017 #5

And I told her office as much, and that I will not vote for her GreenPartyVoter Dec 2017 #6

Oh I would say putting the tax write off up to 10k in interest per year is pretty hefty Egnever Dec 2017 #7

How about striking the provisions that allow credit accounts for fetuses disalitervisum Dec 2017 #9

This fails to protect Obamacare purchasers too affluent for subsidies Cicada Dec 2017 #10