and let the great debate begin welcome to mass ab we're here bringing you conservative insights from

the steps of capital hill i'm emily van der bush i'm tommy welcome we um we have an interesting show

ahead of us today um but first before we dive into that just wanted to kind of talk about what has

happened in the past week.

Well, we have a really interesting show because the last week has been really interesting.

And our interview this week with Robin Simcock was excellent, all about terrorism.

But first, this past week, the news is reporting that Obamacare repeal is dead. I'm here to say that's not true.

They did have a major setback, a major failure in the Senate on Thursday night. But it's our hope and expectation that the Senate will go back to working on Obamacare repeal.

We can get into that in just a minute, but let's just recap what happened on the

Senate floor last week. On Tuesday, they voted to proceed to the bill. So they're on the bill.

The only thing the Senate is considering is the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Bill.

There was a series of amendments offered to that bill,

starting with the 2015 bill. The 2015 bill is the repeal bill that passed the House and Senate and went to President Obama's desk in 2015. So the idea behind that is everybody, well, there are enough senators in the Senate who have voted for that bill to repass it.

Well, it turns out there was a handful of senators who voted for that bill in 2015 that refused to vote for it now.

So their position on Obamacare repeal had shifted. They are no longer for

what they voted for. That's really disappointing, considering that that was part of their

reelection effort. But the Senate was continuing to work on the Better Care Reconciliation Act.

This is the Senate draft that we've been running through. As the week

war on, it became clear that there weren't 51 votes to pass the BCRA at the moment. So what

they did was they tried Skinny Repeal. Now, Skinny Repeal wasn't actually meant as a bill that

would be enacted into law. In fact, the policies, if that bill were enacted on its own, the policies may have some troubling problematic results.

It was meant as a collection of things that everybody agreed on that then the Senate could use to go to conference.

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