Lindsey Graham of SC told Bloomberg on Monday.
And essentially every Hill Republican was elected on a promise to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
The GOP faces the twin pressures of quenching President Trump's thirst for a repeal bill so he can focus on cutting taxes and patching up a wobbly Obamacare market with mounting problems.
Senate Republicans are in agreement that their bill will be significantly different from what the House passed earlier this year, but that is where consensus ends. Usually, the first six months of a new presidency - especially with a Congress controlled by the same party - are prime time for legislating before the midterm campaign season begins.
Trump's domestic agenda has been slowed by congressional investigations into whether his presidential campaign colluded with Russian Federation in the 2016 elections. "It's certainly an ambitious agenda we've got, there's no question about it, it has been all along and I wouldn't have it any other way". John Cornyn of Texas, the Republican majority whip.
When IJR pointed out the Congressional Budget Office found the GOP's funding for high-risk pools wouldn't be enough to take care of individuals with pre-existing conditions under the House version of the AHCA, he shrugged.
Based on that timeline, and roughly a two-week turnaround for the CBO, leaders are pushing to get the legislative text of the bill done by the end of the week, according to Politico's Jennifer Haberkorn and Burgess Everett.
"I think it's a failure of the General Assembly to actually do that", Rep. Richard Smith, R-New Fairfield, said about going into a special session.
But Majority Leader Dick Hinch says the decision came down to who has the most experience on budget matters.
"I think we've done more than we've gotten credit for, but the big ones are ahead", Cole said.
McCaskill acknowledged that Democrats were criticized for strict partisanship when passing President Barack Obama's health care plan in 2010, but "dozens of Republican amendments were offered and accepted" as the result of hearings.
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As details about Butt emerged, however, they prompted questions of whether he could have been stopped sooner. There were three Frenchmen, two Australian women, one Canadian woman, one Spanish man and one British man.
With deep divisions between the House and Senate and an ideological split, Senate Republicans are struggling to craft their own Obamacare repeal bill that is a top priority for their leader.
Some Republicans, including Sen.
During their lunch Tuesday, Republicans were presented with a PowerPoint and a menu of options to overhaul Obamacare. "We pretty much know what we have to do".
There has been little progress on healthcare since the House passed its bill.
Most members wouldn't get into details about what actually is on the table, but they were honest that there are still sticking points here that have to be resolved.
While many Republicans have spent years pledging to cut Medicaid, they are now reluctant to undo the program that provides coverage to more than 70 million low-income Americans, including many of their constituents.
House Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) spoke out against the bill, which they dubbed the "Wrong Choice Act", in a speech on the House floor Thursday afternoon after Comey's testimony. The approach could lead to cuts in provider payments, program eligibility, and services - ultimately harming some of our nation's most vulnerable citizens. And a plan backed by the House and the Trump administration to convert Medicaid from an open-ended entitlement to a per-capita block grant to the states has also run into serious opposition. This rule allows the Senate to skip the committee process (goodbye full senate committee debate) and instead "fast-tracks" the bill by moving it on the senate calendar so it can be brought to a vote.
If McConnell can not bridge the Medicaid divide, he may have to refocus efforts on more limited legislation to rescue insurance markets across the country that have been battered by the political turmoil in Washington.
While Republicans debate, an increasing number of insurers have been pulling out of the market place, including in OH today. On Wednesday, he met with families negatively affected by the Affordable Care Act, not long after Anthem announced it was pulling out of Ohio's insurance marketplace for 2018. And if the angry town halls across the country reveal anything, it's that you don't need the drama of congressional politics to make people care about what's happening to their health care.
McCaskill countered by saying this was not how the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, was shaped into law. "If the rates go up, that's at his doorstep, because he has not obeyed the law of the land".
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