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McConnell defers consideration of Senate healthcare bill until return of John McCain
Washington Examiner ^

Posted on 07/15/2017 7:40:42 PM PDT by springwater13

The Senate will defer consideration of the GOP healthcare plan that would partially repeal and replace Obamacare until Sen. John McCain returns to work following a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement late Saturday.

After wishing him a "speedy recovery," McConnell, R-Ky., added: "While John is recovering, the Senate will continue our work on legislative items and nominations, and will defer consideration of the Better Care Act."

About two hours earlier McCain's office revealed that he would be spending a week in his home state of Arizona recovering from the procedure he got on Friday.

Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix said the 80-year-old is now "resting comfortably at home and is in good condition," after a successful surgery.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 115th; aca; ahca; braking; gop4obama; gop4obamacare; healthcare; mccain; mccainbloodclot; mcconnell; mitchcare; norepeal; norepealever; obamacare; omg; repeal; repealandreplace; senate; senatehealthcare
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To: springwater13

WTFO? John McCain is sick so the entire Senate stands down?!


62 posted on 07/16/2017 6:07:45 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: maggief
What convenient BS!

Maggie, I'm shocked. This is serious! So serious that Steve Scalise has raised from his hospital bed to play a small violin for Ol' Maverick.

Get well soon, John! Apparently everything grinds to a halt without your doddering incoherence.

63 posted on 07/16/2017 6:08:08 AM PDT by silent_jonny ("forward to what lies ahead" -- Phil. 3:13)
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To: hoosiermama

The governor names a replacement until an election can be scheduled.


64 posted on 07/16/2017 6:12:09 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Skywise
And if this had been any piece of legislation that McCain supported you know he’d be back in DC to do his duty.Just like when he suspended his Presidential campaign to pass the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008—a $700 billion bailout during the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
65 posted on 07/16/2017 6:57:23 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: OrangeHoof
...I truly wish Trump had taken the opportunity to offer the Democrat sen. from North Dakota that Dept. of Interior chair as the “token opposite party” chair...

Bush tried that "power-sharing" tactic and it caused him nothing but trouble. He always had the votes for spending money whether he gave away offices or not.

66 posted on 07/16/2017 7:03:16 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: jz638; springwater13; All

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I am, however, of the opinion that this awful law has to be clawed back bit by bit every chance we get, any chance we get. A slightly less awful obamacare is better than a fully awful obamacare and it gives conservatives motivation to finish the job once the waters in the swamp are finally low enough. DC got awful one bit at a time by people who were willing to take what they could get and hang on until they could gain more power. It will have to get less awful in the same manner.
>

(C) motivation? BWAHAHAHHAHAahahahah *gasp* ‘finish the job’ hahahahahaha....Please, please stop!!

I’d LOVE for someone to show me the ‘1/2 loaf’ theorem in practice w/ ‘(C)\(R)’ results. Seems to work great on the (D)\Socialist side of the equation though.

How’d that work out, 40 yrs ago, for Reagan? The border wall (pre-Trump)? DoEd? PP? NEA? Dreamers?

Then explain how the 1/2-loaf works while (R) pass their OWN Socialist h’care bill, gave us NSA, TSA, NCLB, Part-D, etc.


67 posted on 07/16/2017 7:19:35 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

What makes 1 vote so important?

That is easy.

You need 50 votes to pass something. So we need 50 of 100.

The democrats are all sitting on their thumbs. They are automatic NO votes. That gets rid of 48 votes. That takes you to 2 votes !

So given that they need 50 of the 52 Republican votes, McCain is essential !

Unless you can get ONE democrat to cave.


68 posted on 07/16/2017 7:43:12 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: OrangeHoof

“I truly wish Trump had taken the opportunity to offer the Democrat sen. from North Dakota”

Seems like a good strategy but I would not want a Rat running interior. Trump believes in delegation and wouldn’t want to turn Interior over to a Dem. What really burns me about this is McConell accommodating that traitor McCain when he should be censuring him for betrayal of Trump. The man fed a phony dossier to who knows who to destroy Trump.
He should be stripped of his Committees for starters.


69 posted on 07/16/2017 8:08:17 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: springwater13

Would they have done surgery if he was on the peasants plan, obamacare?


70 posted on 07/16/2017 8:14:19 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! “Laughing my #Ossoff)
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To: springwater13

Looks like the GOP wants to keep Obamacare club members wink no change no reelection is the only answer.


71 posted on 07/16/2017 8:18:48 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: hoosiermama
Just out of curiosity. What happens if he doesn’t come back? Does the governor appoint a replacement? Or, is a called election in order?

McConnell will bring in some Paranormal Investigators to communicate with McCain's ghost so he can continue to cast UniParty votes from the beyond.

"Senator? Senator McCain? What's your vote on HR 1628?"

"Russia Russia Russia!"


72 posted on 07/16/2017 8:35:26 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: Jane Long

***McStain can choose to go to whichever doc he prefers- wherever he chooses. Unlike MANY folks stuck on 0CommieCare***

And yet the irony is lost on all these a holes.

Trumpcare. The Republicans chance to screw us over & ruin or healthcare.

Oh & thanks for the interstate competition on purchasing healthcare. Oh wait.


73 posted on 07/16/2017 9:11:08 AM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Lil Flower

Ya mean mc ‘splain doesn’t go to one of those infamous Arizona VAs and wait in line like the hoi poli?


74 posted on 07/16/2017 9:15:37 AM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder” - The LSN didn’t make Trump, so they can’t break T)
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To: InterceptPoint

***Trump will get his “Obamacare Fix” bill. It won’t fix much but he can check that box and move on to Tax Reform.

You heard it here first. Or possibly second or third or ...***

Two biggest disappointments since election:

1.Trump not draining the Swamp and supporting Ryan.
2.Sessions

Wait. Let me add one more. The continuation of using our military as a Petri dish of social experimentation such as, men & women showering together because as we all know, that’s so much more important than training our men to be warriors. I don’t see our CIC stopping that either.


75 posted on 07/16/2017 9:18:11 AM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: tech_rjmarce1

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!


76 posted on 07/16/2017 12:10:58 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: maggief

So someone on Fox just said they are doing a biopsy. On a blood clot? A two inch blood clot? In the same general vicinity that a melanoma had been found in the past?
SOME ONE is spreading Fake news.

Say goodnight JUAN!


77 posted on 07/16/2017 12:24:34 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: i_robot73

I don’t think Mr. Trump is too worried about it. If they don’t pass it the conservatives are going to be on their @SSSES next spring in primary season. And the system is going to fail.


78 posted on 07/16/2017 12:37:01 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run
McTurtle


79 posted on 07/16/2017 1:07:51 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: springwater13

There won’t be vote now until the Russian business is cleared


80 posted on 07/16/2017 3:12:38 PM PDT by redgolum
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