157: Failure to Repeal Congressional Dish

Process: It matters. During the first seven months of the 115th Congress, the Republicans tried - in multiple ways - to repeal portions of the Affordable Care Act. We already know what they were trying to do; in this episode, hear the full story of how they tried to get their bills passed into law. Later in the episode, we also do a quick summary of what to expect in September as deadlines related to flood insurance, government funding, marijuana, and many other topics loom. Please support Congressional Dish: to contribute using credit card, debit card, PayPal, or Bitcoin to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes Additional Reading Article: by Jackie Wattles and Chris Isidore, CNN Money, September 8, 2017. Article: by Mary Williams Walsh, The New York Times, August 28, 2017. Article: by Ed O'Keefe, The Washington Post, July 28, 2017. Article: by Juliet Eilperin, Kelsey Snell, and Sean Sullivan, Bangor Daily News, July 28, 2017. PDF: , The New York Times, July 27, 2017. Article: by Rachel Roubein, The Hill, July 27, 2017. Article: by John Cassidy, The New Yorker, July 27, 2017. Article: by Jessica Estepa, USA Today, July 27, 2017. Article: by Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, July 27, 2017. Article: by Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, July 26, 2017. Article: by Russell Berman, The Atlantic, July 25, 2017. Article: by Peter Sullivan, The Hill, July 25, 2017. Article: by Robert Pear and Thomas Kaplan, The New York Times, July 21, 2017. Article: by David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post, February 1, 2015. Article: , NaturalGas.org, September 20, 2013. Article: by Lori Widmer, Insurance Journal, July 31, 2012. References Consider This! Podcast: Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017: , July 20, 2017 Healthcare Freedom Act of 2017: BCRA: , July 13, 2017 BCRA: , June 22, 2017 GovTrack: , July 25, 2017 GovTrack: , July 25, 2017 GovTrack: GovTrack: GovTrack: National Weather Service: YouTube: Sound Clip Sources Briefing: , July 27, 2017. Timestamps & Transcripts Senate Session: Senate Leaders Speak Ahead of Health Care Vote, July 25, 2017. Sound Clip Transcripts Senator Chuck Schumer (NY): Many of us on this side of the aisle have waited for years for this opportunity and thought it would probably never come. Some of us were a little surprised by the election last year, but with a surprise election comes great opportunities to do things we thought were never possible. So all we have to do today is to have the courage to begin the debate with an open amendment process and let the voting take us where it will. Senator John McCain (AZ): Our system doesn’t depend on our nobility. It accounts for our imperfections and gives us an order to our individual strivings that has helped make ours the most powerful and prosperous society on Earth. It is our responsibility to preserve that, and even when it requires us to do something less satisfying than winning, even when we must give a little to get a little, even when our efforts managed just 3 yards in a cloud of dust while critics on both sides denounced us for timidity, for our failure to triumph. I hope we can again rely on humility, on our need to cooperate, on our dependence on each other to learn how to trust each other again and, by so doing, better serve the people who elected us. Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood. Let’s trust each other. Let’s return to regular order. We have been spinning our wheels on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle. That’s an approach that’s been employed by both sides: mandating legislation from the