{"id":1834,"date":"2017-09-20T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/20\/republicans-are-putting-politics-before-the-people-they-represent\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:08:00","slug":"republicans-are-putting-politics-before-the-people-they-represent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/republicans-are-putting-politics-before-the-people-they-represent\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Are Putting Politics Before The People They Represent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Republicans are putting politics over the people they represent by trying to force through the secretive Graham-Cassidy-Heller health care repeal bill, without knowing what’s in it or how it will impact people. The worst part is, they don’t even care.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Republicans are trying to deceive the American people, and their own colleagues, so they can force through a secretive bill they know is bad.<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Huffington Post<\/span><\/a>: “The story Graham and Cassidy are telling the public is a vast over-simplification, one that leaves out the bill’s most important elements. And the story they are peddling to colleagues? That’s even more misleading.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Republicans are putting politics over policy – they don’t know what’s in the bill, and they don’t even care.<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NBC News<\/span><\/a>: “The details of the bill, known as Graham-Cassidy, don't appear to address the policy concerns of a handful of Republican senators who either voted against the last version of the legislation or reluctantly supported it because of promises that it would be revised before becoming law.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Vox<\/span><\/a>: “Republican senators are struggling to articulate why they are rushing to pass their last-ditch effort to repeal and replace Obamacare over the next 10 days before running into their <\/span>September 30<\/span> deadline.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Senator Chuck Grassley<\/span><\/a>: “Republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the campaign. That’s pretty much as much of a reason as the substance of the bill.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump’s Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short<\/span><\/a>: “It’s not the policy, but the politics.” <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kellyanne Conway<\/span><\/a>: “He’s been here for seven or eight months, they’ve been talking about this for seven or eight years. He’s ready. You put meaningful repeal-and-replace legislation on his desk and he will sign it.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Senior GOP aide<\/span><\/a>: “If there was an oral exam on the contents of the proposal, graded on a generous curve, only two Republicans could pass it. And one of them isn't Lindsey Graham.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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GOP Lobbyist<\/span><\/a>: “I am just in shock how no one actually cares about the policy anymore.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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GOP aide<\/span><\/a>: “You could do a post office renaming and call it 'repeal-replace' and 48 Republican senators would vote for it sight unseen.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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