House Freedom Caucus is Busy

[beth]

Freedom Caucus to file petition TODAY to bring up clean Obamacare repeal

(From Politico's Playbook)

SOMETHING PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL LIKE. The conservative House Freedom Caucus will file a petition today to try to force Speaker Paul Ryan to bring up a so-called “clean Obamacare repeal” bill. The legislation passed the House and Senate in the past -- it repeals Obamacare after a two-year transition period. (It failed the Senate this year.) If the discharge petition -- which will get filed during today’s pro-forma session -- gets 218 signatures, it will force a floor vote. The Freedom Caucus and conservative outside groups will try to ramp up lots of pressure to force people to sign on. Expect Trump -- itchy for victory, and frustrated with Republican leaders on health care -- to weigh in. He’s close with some members of the Freedom Caucus.

www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2017/08/11/scoop-house-freedom-caucus-to-file-petition-today-to-bring-up-clean-obamacare-repeal-what-trump-said-with-some-translation-rucker-on-trump-dawsey-and-hulse-on-trump-mcconnell-playbook-on-the-road-winners-bday-liz-landers-221817

[annaj26]

Aug 11, 2017 11:16:15 GMT -5 beth said:

Freedom Caucus to file petition TODAY to bring up clean Obamacare repeal

(From Politico's Playbook)

SOMETHING PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL LIKE. The conservative House Freedom Caucus will file a petition today to try to force Speaker Paul Ryan to bring up a so-called “clean Obamacare repeal” bill. The legislation passed the House and Senate in the past -- it repeals Obamacare after a two-year transition period. (It failed the Senate this year.) If the discharge petition -- which will get filed during today’s pro-forma session -- gets 218 signatures, it will force a floor vote. The Freedom Caucus and conservative outside groups will try to ramp up lots of pressure to force people to sign on. Expect Trump -- itchy for victory, and frustrated with Republican leaders on health care -- to weigh in. He’s close with some members of the Freedom Caucus.

www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2017/08/11/scoop-house-freedom-caucus-to-file-petition-today-to-bring-up-clean-obamacare-repeal-what-trump-said-with-some-translation-rucker-on-trump-dawsey-and-hulse-on-trump-mcconnell-playbook-on-the-road-winners-bday-liz-landers-221817

Isn't the "freedom caucus the old "tea party"? I think it is. Still looking for ways to screw things up!

[Jessiealan]

Senate GOP accepting defeat on Obamacare repeal

Passing a bill by a key end-of-month deadline appears almost impossible for Republicans.


Senate Republicans are throwing cold water on the idea of holding another Obamacare repeal vote before their opportunity to gut the law on a party-line vote expires at the end of this month.

Though President Donald Trump and some Senate Republicans are pushing a plan being devised by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to block grant federal health care funding to the states and keep much of Obamacare's taxes, the idea of passing the measure by month's end appears almost impossible, according to senators and aides.

The bill isn't finished yet, there is no Congressional Budget Office score, and some Republicans are working with Democrats on a bipartisan plan to shore up insurance markets. Furthermore, Republicans don't have a plan that can get 50 votes.

And that means the dream of repealing the law with all GOP votes is slipping away, at least for now, as Republicans turn to tax reform.

"We’ve seen that we don’t have 51 votes to do it, so we’re going to have to do it bipartisan," said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas in an interview on Thursday morning. Asked whether the Senate would hold an Obamacare repeal vote before the Senate's budget reconciliation instructions expire, he replied: “I don’t believe so."

"I don't think there's much of a chance," said Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the Senate Finance Committee Chairman. "I think that was pretty well decided by McCain."

the rest is here
www.politico.com/story/2017/09/07/obamacare-repeal-republicans-defeat-242443?lo=ap_b1