Democrats, Advocates Celebrate Failure To Repeal Obamacare
"People now understand that if you organize and if you resist, we can win," said
Rep.
"Today, their voices were heard," Esty said in a statement released Friday afternoon.
"There were a whole host of things that I think they tried to do too quickly," she said. "They tried to do too much and some of it they shouldn't have tried to do at all."
But Andrews said revisions to the Affordable Care Act are still needed, something that was repeated by Democratic legislators -- who called on
"Obamacare needs fixing," Andrews said. "It isn't perfect, and I am concerned about the resolve now to do the things that are necessary to keep it from this 'death spiral' that [House Speaker
Appearing on
"The only things that are going well for the president of
With
"This Republican meltdown marked a massive failure of governance by a reckless, irresponsible administration and its partisan congressional leadership," Sen.
The vote on the American Health Care Act had been scheduled for Thursday but was pushed to Friday, presumably because
During four hours of debate that began Friday morning and stretched into the middle of the afternoon,
"This is not just a vote, this is a gut check on who we are as people and whether our purpose as elected officials [is] to serve the public interest or rather feckless special interests," Rep.
Rep.
"The sheer humanity of what's taking place across this country cries out for a solution," he said. Americans don't care about the politics playing out behind the scenes, Larson said, "they care about their families ... it's up to us to come together and work on behalf of the American people," he said.
A national Quinnipiac Poll released this week said voters opposed the Republican health care plan by a 3-1 margin. Fifty-six percent disapproved of the bill, 17 percent approved and 26 percent were undecided. Just 41 percent of
Republican tax credits would have been based on age, not income like Obama's, and the tax boosts Obama imposed on higher-earning people and health care companies would have been repealed. The bill would have ended Obama's
"What does the
Even if the bill passed the House, it was expected to face an even tougher battle in the
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