Democrats Tie Up The Senate To Protest GOP Health Care Push
Without the votes to block a Republican bill, Senate Democrats are trying to draw attention to the GOP's closed-door process for drafting health care legislation.
by Geoff Bennett
Jun 19, 2017
3 minutes
The Republican effort to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has led to a standoff in the Senate.
Senate Democrats on Monday night began using parliamentary maneuvers to slow Senate business as part of a coordinated protest against the GOP push to pass an Obamacare replacement bill. A small group of Republican senators has been working in private for weeks, shielding from public view the bill and the negotiations surrounding it.
In a show of frustration with what
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