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By Thomas McKinless</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> <p class="p1">After the Senate narrowly passed a motion to proceed on a bill to dismantle the 2010 health care law on Tuesday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
</p> The amendment, offered by Virginia Republican Morgan Griffith to the four-bill appropriations minibus the House is currently debating, would have abolished CBO’s 89-employee budget analysis division
</p> <p style="""text-align: “;">Johnson is the chairman of that Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panel, but reconciliation has special limits on the scope of the bill and related amendments.
</p> Seven GOP senators joined with Democrats to sink the proposal, 45-55.
</p> Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, another co-sponsor of the amendment, said while the measure is a reaction to what he sees as the CBO’s flawed score of the health care bill and reflects worry
</p> He went onto say that, while agreeing to back McConnell on the first procedural hurdle, he would oppose passage of the final health care bill unless provisions to benefit Arizona were included.
</p> Republicans on the Rules Committee are set to nix some of the proposals Wednesday when they complete a rule for the defense portion of the four-bill spending package.
As the day began on Tuesday, McConnell had no bill, no CBO score, and almost no leverage over senators. McConnell had to lean on his holdouts hard.
</p> The bill was largely lauded by leadership as a bipartisan effort.</p> “These bad actors have long sought to undermine the United States and disrupt global stability,” House Speaker Paul D.
</p> July 18: Mitch McConnell’s Plan B on Health Care Appears Dead</p> “For months, I have expressed reservations about the direction of the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
</p> Over in the House, lawmakers are preparing to take up a so-called security minibus, which includes the Defense appropriations bill.
</p> Democrats objected to sending the bill back to the Senate for technical changes after language to allow the minority party to bring forth such resolutions was stripped.
</p> The chamber is set to hold the first of a series of votes on the House-passed bill to repeal and replace the health care law at noon on Wednesday.
</p> But even that plan to advance a slimmed-down repeal bill faces difficult odds.
and hailing the House bill as “a great plan.” </p> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">It was a GREAT day for the United States of America! This is a great plan that is a repeal & replace of ObamaCare.
Rob Portman co-sponsoring the bill. It has 31 Republican and 14 Democrat co-sponsors, and a similar House bill has 117 Republican and 63 Democrat co-sponsors.
</p> The now twice-made decision to proceed with a four-bill minibus package of national security-related appropriations bills instead of a 12-bill omnibus is a blow to those in the Republican Conference
</p> Vice President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 tie to clear the Senate motion to proceed with the House-passed bill to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law, after weeks of hand-wringing and backroom
the process to move ahead with the bill in secrecy.