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Title: Pete King: Freedom Caucus to blame for failed healthcare bill
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The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcar ... ame-for-failed-healthcare-bill
Published: Mar 26, 2017
Author: BY MAX GREENWOOD -
Post Date: 2017-03-26 19:36:40 by Gatlin
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Views: 477
Comments: 4
Pete King: Freedom Caucus to blame for failed healthcare bill © Getty Images Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) on Sunday pinned the failure of the GOP healthcare bill on the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, saying the GOP faction wanted a "total repeal" of the Affordable Care Act. "[The Freedom Caucus] was insisting on virtually a total repeal of ObamaCare, which sounds good," King told radio host John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York. "You can't end that overnight." President Trump was handed the first legislative defeat of his presidency on Friday, after Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) pulled the American Health Care Act amid dwindling support among Republicans. King himself had indicated before the bill was killed that he was leaning against it. But he blamed the Freedom Caucus on Sunday for attempting to push the bill too far to the right and warned Republicans that they would have to build bipartisan support on any other major legislative undertakings. "We're going to have to realize whether it's healthcare, whether it's tax reform coming up, that we're going to have to find a way to get legislation through that is not just all Republican," he said. "Because then it becomes all or nothing, and it's going to end up becoming nothing." "We have to find a way to reach out to get at least some Democrats involved," he added. "I think President Trump can do it."
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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)
Potatoe peelers are required to change the skin of America.
Sinn Féin president and IRA leader Gerry Adams, Congressman Peter King (R-NY) and onetime IRA member Danny Morrison (right) in 1984. The Congressman gives a guided tour to the terrorist. You seem to love all the terrorists, and hate freedom and free market capitalism. Did you attend Trump University, or where you born that way? That second picture is photo shopped and the first one looks as if it photo shopped too.
Isn't Peter King still considered a terrorist and not allowed to visit Britain?
#2. To: Gatlin, ISIS McCain cult, progressive Republican neocons (#0)
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The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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