Advertisement Continue reading the main story“We need to get into a governing mode and start thinking about actually achieving something rather than just kind of sparring,” Mr. McConnell said. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“I think what you’re seeing is we’re going through the inevitable growing pains of being an opposition party to becoming a governing party,” the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, said last week. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe effort cost some House Democrats dearly in what proved to be a suicide mission. Given that history, some House Republicans may not want to commit to the health legislation without assurances that the Senate will follow through and not leave them hanging out there all alone. All this internal friction has to be maddening to Republicans like Mr. McConnell who prefer to keep family feuds hushed up.

Source: New York Times March 12, 2017 09:02 UTC