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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWA Sen. PATTY MURRAY leads Dems in protest on Senate floor
http://www.newsweek.com/health-care-bill-democratic-party-hold-floor-obamacare-senate-627509Leading Senate Democrats held the floor overnight Monday in protest at what they see as secretive Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Tim Kaine and Al Franken, along with independent Senator Bernie Sanders and other Democrats, gave speeches calling for the act, also known as Obamacare, to remain in law. They also demanded that Republicans hold a public hearing about the proposed replacement health care bill.
The speeches, organized by Washington Senator Patty Murray, were part of a wider campaign by the Democrats to try and force the Republicans to bring their bill before an open committee. Politico reported that the party will begin objecting to unanimous consent requests in the Senate and may block committee hearings scheduled for Tuesday. By holding up other Senate business, they hope to force the Republican Partys hand on health care.
The protest happened four days after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote to the majority leader, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, calling for an all-senators meeting to discuss health care. Quoted in Politico, Schumer said that, Republicans are drafting this bill in secret because they're ashamed of it, plain and simple. Speaking about the Democrats plans to hold the floor, Schumer added: If Republicans won't relent and debate their health care bill in the open for the American people to see, then they shouldn't expect business as usual in the Senate.
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WA Sen. PATTY MURRAY leads Dems in protest on Senate floor (Original Post)
pnwmom
Jun 2017
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Thank you PATTY MURRAY, ELIZABETH WARREN, TIM KAINE, AL FRANKEN and BERNIE SANDERS!
beam me up scottie
Jun 2017
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Cha
(297,692 posts)1. Thank you, Senator Patty Murray!
Mahalo, pnwmom
suffragette
(12,232 posts)2. K&R
MineralMan
(146,331 posts)3. Thanks go out to our eloquent Democratic Senators for their effort,
and to Bernie Sanders, as well, who joined in this protest.
Thanks, especially to Senator Murray, who organized this particular action.
burrowowl
(17,648 posts)8. Ditto!
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)4. Thank you PATTY MURRAY, ELIZABETH WARREN, TIM KAINE, AL FRANKEN and BERNIE SANDERS!
And every other senator who STORMED the floor to fight for the ACA!
ismnotwasm
(42,014 posts)7. K&R
mcar
(42,376 posts)9. Thank you, Sen Murray!
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)10. Great! Good work Senator
and good work too to all the rest of them who delivered those speeches.
KT2000
(20,588 posts)11. Senator Murray is our
stealth senator. You never hear about her preparing to do something, it is always after she has done it! Good for her - going to send her a thank you note.
murielm99
(30,764 posts)12. Go, Patty!
This is real leadership from a real Democrat.
I keep reading media horseshit about how divided Democrats are. We are not!
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)13. Awesome. K&R nt.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)14. Video of Sen. Murray holding the floor last night...
pnwmom
(108,995 posts)15. Thanks!