into this partisan divide we see today. can you explain to me why you seem so i feel like you have information i don t have. you re an actual republican member of congress. this is obviously this is your work and this is very important. it s important to you and constituents. you seem far more confident this will fail in the senate than the people i ve been talking to. why do you have that confidence? i ve been in congress since 2010 and seen this partisan path before just blow up. and it doesn t work. you look at the affordable care act itself and the flaws that the partisan bill it was created to the american people. when you do things on a partisan basis, that s not the best way to approach this and that s why i look forward to working with good faith legislators and given where we are right now and where the health care debacle was a few months ago, i don t see the votes being there to have this go forward and get signed into law. but correct me if i m wrong, you did vote y
the partisan bill it was created to the american people. when you do things on a partisan basis, that s not the best way to approach this and that s why i look forward to working with good faith legislators and given where we are right now and where the health care debacle was a few months ago, i don t see the votes being there to have this go forward and get signed into law. but correct me if i m wrong, you did vote yes on the ahca, which was an entirely partisan vote, right? i did. that moved the ball for the people back home in the bill i supported in the house, we were going to alleviate 70% of the local people s tax bills they by every day. we re a struggling district congressman have that type of tax relief is significant on top of the other reforms we were advocating for. that was my favorite feature of the so-called buffalo buyout in which medicaid payments were shifted to new york city. away from districts like your own which good for you you
joining me now, republican congressman frances mooney. thanks for being here. mitch mcconnell said it s time to move on to tax reform. how will republicans fulfill that promise to repeal and replace, in this environment, considering the context? well first of all, the house of representatives has done its part, we passed the ahca which is a good conservative view of how to bring free enterprise patient-centric care to the group for insurance and bring it back to the states. i do not understand why it s so hard to bring back the what we told people were we going to do. i spoke to two senators, brooks and moore said it s time for mitch mcconnell to go.
well, the daily russia revelations continue to overshadow the big battle on capitol hill over health care. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is still planning a vote next week, but no one seems to know exactly what they ll be voting on. let s bring in one person who can help us answer this. we have republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana, he s a physician. and you may remember he coined the term, the kimmel test as a standard for american health coverage. senator, thanks so much for being here. thank you for having me. what are you guys voting on next week? well, it isn t so much that we don t know what we re voting on, we don t know in which the sequence we will vote. just the process is the first vote will be to take up the house bill. that is just the process. but when you say the house bill, do you mean the repeal only, no replacement, the repeal only bill? new york cio, the repeal oh, you mean the original house bill. ahca.
he does have all these 33 million twitter followers. could he be doing something more sneer. he need to decide where he stand on the health care bill first. it was a terrific bill when it was the ahca. then it was mean before the bcra came out. now it s a terrific bill again. i don t know where he stands but he has the power as president to bring both republicans and democrats together. excuse me. one thing we are missing is that the american people and the election wanted to end this end the gridlock in washington. and in recent polling we ve seen that americans want republicans and democrats to come together to forge a compromise. we ve been talking about this, bob, for years, literally for years, and we did have a president who ran on sort of getting things done, but do you see anything in washington that s changed the dynamic for the better as to posed to for the worse? here s the problem that i have with democrats participating in this. they do not want to give donald