Senate GOP: Knowing Health Care Plan Is 'Luxury We Don't Have'
Source: Roll Call
Uncertainty surrounds floor strategy for Republicans’ health care effort
Posted Jul 21, 2017 11:31 AM
By Joe Williams
By JOE WILLIAMS and LAUREN CLASON
Republican senators left Washington no closer to a deal on their health care effort, with no idea what measure might be brought up for a vote early next week or whether the chamber could even clear a key procedural hurdle needed to begin consideration of any legislation.
It is a startling admission for GOP lawmakers, who for the past seven years criticized Democrats for what they said was a secretive process to advance the 2010 health law as much as the actual policy itself.
And despite hopes that the Senate would serve as the last bastion of robust debate for a House-passed measure with rock-bottom low public approval ratings, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has kept the veil of secrecy so tight around the effort that even his top lieutenants are unaware what the strategy is.
“I don’t know, somebody probably does. But I don’t know,” Senate Republican Vice-Chairman Roy Blunt of Missouri said when asked what the plan for next week is. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, the chamber’s No. 2 Republican and a close McConnell ally, echoed his comments.
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Where the hell are the Roll Call fact checkers? Why don't they include the fact that there were > 90 hearings held and I believe 161 amendments (between both chambers) added to what became the final 2 bills of the enacted PPACA. 
