Ryan pulls the bill

[William Tell]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans, short of votes, withdraw health care bill.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...03-24-15-35-32

[EBounding]

Aw heck, so no voting?

[Jan2017]

So Paul Ryan tried . . .
Trump Insists on Vote to Repeal Health Care, Despite Facing Defeat
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, facing a revolt among conservative and moderate Republicans, told President Trump on Friday that he did not have the votes to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to decide whether to pull the bill from consideration. But the president insisted that lawmakers cast their public votes Friday afternoon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/u...-care-act.html

CSPAN Live went blank though . . .and

So Ryan v. Trump . . . wonder who survives.
Trump’s First Legislative Effort Fails as G.O.P. Pulls Bill to Repeal Obamacare
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders, facing a revolt among conservatives and moderates in their ranks, pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor Friday afternoon in a humiliating defeat for President Trump on the first legislative showdown of his presidency.

[afwjam]

I was told there would be voting!?

[Brian4Liberty]

Bluff called.

[William Tell]

Rand called it. Off by a couple days but he called it.

[William Tell]

ha ha son of a bitch

[angelatc]

House Republican leaders, facing a revolt among conservatives and moderates in their ranks....

That sentence ....

[TheTexan]

Aw heck, so no voting?

I was really looking forward to a great day of voting today

[William Tell]

Aw heck, so no voting?

I was hoping to get the weasels on record.

[Matt Collins]

[William Tell]

RINOs has teh sadz https://www.c-span.org/video/?425965...onference&live

[phill4paul]

[TheTexan]

I was told there would be voting!?

Nope.

[Zippyjuan]

The budget battle is going to be fun to watch too. Trump may in theory have control of both Houses but they are houses divided on what to actually do and how to proceed on things.

[TheTexan]

The budget battle is going to be fun to watch too. Trump may in theory have control of both Houses but they are houses divided on what to actually do and how to proceed on things.

Trump is a fantastic leader I'm sure he will figure it out

[Jan2017]

Trump and Ryan expected to make comments about the defeat shortly.
Spicer "President left everything on the field"

OK, time to clear the debris of Paul Ryan off the field.

[William Tell]

https://www.c-span.org/video/?425971...care-bill&live

[Zippyjuan]

[Jan2017]

https://www.c-span.org/video/?425971...care-bill&live

Thanks. All the news sites are streaming this Ryan press conference.

http://go.cnn.com/?stream=cnn%3Fsr

[PatriotOne]

I was hoping to get the weasels on record.

Maybe Trump wanted the weasels willing to sell out their constituency by voting yay on this bill on record also .

[William Tell]

Maybe Trump wanted the weasels willing to sell out their constituency by voting yay on this bill on record also .

Then why'd he give Ryan the green light to pull it?

[undergroundrr]

Maybe Trump wanted the weasels willing to sell out their constituency by voting yay on this bill on record also .

Apparently not.

House Republican leaders decided to pull their Obamacare replacement bill at the last minute at the request of President Donald Trump -- capping a rocky series of weeks since the controversial measure was introduced and an order from the president for legislators to put their cards on the table today.

A GOP aide tells ABC News that Trump called Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at 3 p.m. to tell him to pull the bill. The next House votes are scheduled for Monday, so no further votes are expected in the House for the day or the week.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ryan-...ry?id=46346773

[PatriotOne]

Then why'd he give Ryan the green light to pull it?

Did he? Does Ryan needs Trumps permission to pull it? Or did he smell a trap? lol

[PatriotOne]

Apparently not.



http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ryan-...ry?id=46346773

Thanks. Good to know. Things ought to get real interesting on the next move :-).

[eleganz]

Guys this is exactly what Rand wanted.

Now the House will get to start over with a new bill (how big of a cock block can Paul Ryan be without looking like a bish?) for full repeal. Every single GOP will be held liable if they don't vote for repeal. Its a fight and Rand knew it from the beginning.

Rand must be feeling good today but a lot more media interviews ahead of him.

[phill4paul]

Did he? Does Ryan needs Trumps permission to pull it? Or did he smell a trap? lol

Ryan was reading the forums and came across dannno's posts and was alerted. If dannno wouldn't have put the plan out there Ryan might have fallen into the trap.

[William Tell]

Did he? Does Ryan needs Trumps permission to pull it? Or did he smell a trap? lol

He did give him the green light. Ryan did ask permission he said so in his press conference.

[Dr.3D]

So Paul Ryan tried . . .
Trump Insists on Vote to Repeal Health Care, Despite Facing Defeat
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, facing a revolt among conservative and moderate Republicans, told President Trump on Friday that he did not have the votes to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to decide whether to pull the bill from consideration. But the president insisted that lawmakers cast their public votes Friday afternoon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/u...-care-act.html

CSPAN Live went blank though . . .and

So Ryan v. Trump . . . wonder who survives.
[/COLOR]Trump’s First Legislative Effort Fails as G.O.P. Pulls Bill to Repeal Obamacare
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders, facing a revolt among conservatives and moderates in their ranks, pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor Friday afternoon in a humiliating defeat for President Trump on the first legislative showdown of his presidency.[/COLOR]

I'm pretty sure if the bill had been just to repeal the Affordable Care Act, it would have been voted and passed.

[Zippyjuan]

He could not get enough Republican support so he blames Democrats for the bill's failure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/u...-act.html?_r=0

Trump Blames Democrats as Major Push to Repeal Health Law Fails

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders, facing a revolt among conservatives and moderates in their ranks, pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor Friday afternoon in a spectacular defeat for President Trump on the first legislative showdown of his presidency.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan conceded, “We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.”

Mr. Ryan had rushed to the White House shortly after noon to tell Mr. Trump he did not have the votes for a repeal bill that had been promised for seven years — since the day President Barack Obama signed his landmark health care act into law.

Mr. Trump, in a telephone interview moments after the bill was pulled, blamed Democrats and predicted that they would seek a deal within a year, he asserted, after “Obamacare explodes” because of high premiums.

He expressed weariness with the fight.

“The best thing that could happen is exactly what happened — watch,” he said. “It’s enough already.”

But the effort to win passage had been relentless — and hardly hidden. Vice President Mike Pence and Tom Price, the health secretary, rushed to Capitol Hill for a late appeal to House conservatives, but their pleas fell on deaf ears.

If this fight wore him out, it is going to be a long four years.

At 3:30 p.m., Mr. Ryan called Republicans into a closed-door meeting to deliver the news that the bill would be pulled, with no plans to try again. The meeting lasted five minutes.

“We’re going to go home and spend time with our families and time with our constituents, and one day I hope we can eventually repeal,” said Representative Chuck Fleischmann, Republican of Tennessee.

President Trump, through his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, told House Republicans on Thursday night that he was giving them this one chance to repeal the Affordable Care Act. If they failed, Mr. Mulvaney told them, the president would live with his predecessor’s law.

Rejection of the repeal bill may also prompt Republicans to reconsider the political strategy they were planning to use for the next few years.

“We have to do some soul-searching internally to determine whether or not we are even capable of functioning as a governing body,” said Representative Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota. “If ‘no’ is your goal, it’s the easiest goal in the world to reach.”