Senate Rejects Obamacare ‘Straight Repeal’ Proposal

The Senate has rejected the measure on a “straight repeal” of parts of Obamacare repeal put on the floor for a vote today.

Senate Republicans were scrambling to get enough people to vote for the repeal bill, but there were some holdouts:

GOP NO Votes already called:
Capito
Heller
Collins

This ACA repeal bill is already dead.

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) July 26, 2017

McCain also no

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) July 26, 2017

GOP nos on 2015 repeal bill w/ no replace: Capito, Collins, Heller, McCain, Portman. Cassidy, surprises, votes "aye"

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) July 26, 2017

GOP Senators Lamar Alexander, Lisa Murkowski also cast votes against ACA repeal bill

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) July 26, 2017

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