Senate Reportedly Won’t Even Vote on House Health Care Bill, Will Write Their Own

The celebration was on Thursday afternoon after the passage of the House’s health care bill. House Republicans headed to the White House for a Rose Garden ceremony with President Donald Trump, and the mood was positively giddy.

But if a new report is accurate, they were all celebrating a passage of a bill that will never even reach the Senate floor.

According to the Washington Examiner, a 12-member Senate group is currently working to draft their own health care legislation. Their version will apparently be so different that they won’t take up the House version as a starting point.

Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) did say that he and his colleague will try to include some of the House bill in their own version.

“The safest thing to say is there will be a Senate bill, but it will look at what the House has done and see how much of that we can incorporate in a product that works for us in reconciliation,” Blunt said.

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) added, “We are going to draft a Senate bill. That is what I’ve been told.”

Moreover, the Examiner quoted Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) as saying there is “really no deadline” for the dozen-member Senate group to draft a bill.

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