Senate DEM are holding their breathe and stomping their feet as they want McConnell to release their health bill and stop the parade of debate amendments – PB/TK
Dems to GOP: No amendments until you show us your bill – By Seung Min Kim / July 26 2017
Senate Democrats are taking their ball and going home in the looming health care vote-a-rama — until Republicans finally cough up their actual Obamacare repeal plan.
Fed up with the GOP’s constant vacillations over how to dismantle Obamacare, Democrats say they will hold back on offering any more amendments in the health care floor fight until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) shows what plan the GOP will ultimately coalesce around.
“Democrats are not going to participate in this one-sided and broken process,” announced Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) Wednesday evening. “Once the majority leader shows his hand, reveals what his bill will actually be, Democrats will use the opportunity to try and amend the bill.”
The latest iteration of the GOP plan gaining some traction is the so-called “skinny repeal” plan, a bare-bones proposal that would eliminate Obamacare’s individual and employer mandates while getting rid of the law’s medical device tax. Some Republicans have embraced the strategy — particularly as a way to push a legislative product through to final negotiations with the House — but still several key centrists and conservatives say they’re undecided on whether to back the proposal.
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