The U.S. Senate has voted to reject a proposal to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act (aka ACA, aka Obamacare) without providing a replacement.
7 GOP Senators voted no, and the proposal lost 45-55:
Alexander
Capito
Collins
Heller
McCain
Murkowski
Portman
The NYT has a live vote tracker that shows how each senator voted.
Obamacare “straight repeal” FAILS
Murkowski: ❌
Alexander: ❌
Portman: ❌
McCain: ❌
Collins: ❌
Capito: ❌
Heller: ❌3 GOPers ❌ stopped measure
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) July 26, 2017
Here are the GOP senators who voted no. (Second column)https://t.co/DsOMOtLc28 pic.twitter.com/RbYpggwTJh
— Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz) July 26, 2017
Final count: 7 Republicans vote against repeal-only (measure fails)
ALEXANDER
CAPITO
COLLINS
HELLER
McCAIN
MURKOWSKI
PORTMAN— Jason Millman (@JasonMillman) July 26, 2017
BREAKING: Senate votes 45-55 to reject a bill that repeals much of Obamacare without a replacement. (It needed 50 votes to pass.)
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 26, 2017
NOW VOTING: on the Donnelly motion to commit H.R.1628, American Health Care Act of 2017, to the Committee on Finance.
— Senate Cloakroom (@SenateCloakroom) July 26, 2017
(This was expected to fail) https://t.co/oUYvShxADL
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) July 26, 2017
Murkowski, Collins and Heller voted against repeal-only and repeal and replace. And repeal-only got more votes than McConnell's replace.
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) July 26, 2017
RECAP: The Senate has now rejected TWO key Obamacare repeal bills (as expected). Onto more bills/amendments/votes.
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) July 26, 2017
Up next: Many more amendments. And a likely vote on GOP “skinny repeal” — with big consequences — is still looming. https://t.co/kMm2DZDjbY
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) July 26, 2017
The Senate has now nixed two of its three options for dismantling the ACAhttps://t.co/uL2C1xm7EZ
— Sarah Kaplan (@sarahkaplan48) July 26, 2017
A case that "skinny repeal" is a way to get something, anything through the Senate and write an actual plan some other time. https://t.co/JsCYqUxXzZ
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) July 26, 2017
A total of 13 GOP senators–including 10 men–have voted no on one or both of these bills, but only the female senators are being attacked. https://t.co/bq5ptZ1ck8
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 26, 2017
Vote-a-rama goals for the minority party:
1. Try to poison the bill
2. Extract maximum pain from the majority
3. ABT (always be trolling)
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 26, 2017
