[Magdalen] House vote.

[Charles Wohlers]

This is "supposed to be" a budget reconciliation bill, which is not subject 
to filibuster in the Senate. They can only do this once a year, so if it is 
voted on and fails, then that's it for health care "reform" for this year. 
This is also why there are certain aspects of Obamacare they can't change, 
since everything in the bill (since it's theoretically a budget 
reconciliation measure) must deal with money. Changing Obamacare any other 
way means a filibuster in the Senate, and it wouldn't pass.

I might note that the difficulties they're having in the House come from a 
group of hyper-conservative, stark raving bonkers Republicans who want to 
make sure poor folks have even less of a chance of getting health care and 
the very rich get a bigger break. Should they get their way, the bill would 
thankfully have even less of a chance of passage in the Senate.

I also understand that our good friends the Koch brothers have vowed to work 
to defeat any of those hyper-conservative Republicans who break ranks and 
votes for the bill.

Chad Wohlers
happy to live in a very blue state where all elected Republicans are 
actually fairly decent people,
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Grace Cangialosi
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 3:43 PM
To: magdalen
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] House vote.

Let me see if I understand this...There won't be a vote on the bill until
the desired outcome is known ahead of time???  Why bother to vote, then? I
am so disgusted with our government right now.


On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:31 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> Though still slated for this evening, McConnell is telling his senatorial
> peeps that a vote most likely won't happen before Monday.  It seems even
> though Tramp caved on many of the conservatives' demands this morning in a
> meeting at the White House, they came out telling reporters there's "still
> no deal".
>



-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

*"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
love."*
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