“Don’t know what’s in it,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said hours before the vote. “I’m praying for it every day,” Senator David Perdue, Republican of Georgia, said of the health care legislation. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyOthers have chafed at the suggestion that the upper chamber would be responsible for cleanup duty. Some elements of the House bill had already threatened to draw the parliamentarian’s attention, and Democrats have strategized about specific components to target on these grounds. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyIt was up to Democrats, he said, “to tell this story and drive its approval ratings down from 18 to 8.”

Source: New York Times May 04, 2017 18:23 UTC