process and let the voting take us where it will. so, that s what s before us. colleagues. will we begin the debate on one of the most important issues confronting america today? it s my hope the answer will be yes. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that following the vote, senator mccain be recognized to speak for debate only for up to 15 minutes and that the time not count on hr 1628. is there objection? no objection heard. mr. president. i move to proceed to calendar number 120, hr 1628. clerical report. motion to proceed to calendar number 120, hr-1628 and an act
number 120. hr 1628 an act to provide for reconciliation, pursuant to title 2 of the con occurrence budget. yays and nays. [ crowd shouting ] sergeant of arms will restore order in the chamber. sergeant of arms will restore order in the chamber, please. [ kill tcrowd chanting kill the] sergeant of arms will restore order in the chamber.
back and forth before they get to the bill that they re actually going to vote on but this is still a very big development for mitch mcconnell and it likely signals that they have enough votes for this vote later this afternoon to get the bill to the floor. thank you. let me just remind everybody. if you don t know all these faces and names of senators who are key in this whole repeal and replace or just repeal, let s rewind to just last week. so the president s sitting at the white house, he has this lunch with a number of republican senators. i don t know who was up for putting this whole seating chart together but sitting to the president s right is the senator we re talking about, this republican senator who was the no vote, dean heller of nevada. listen to the president s quip and watch senator heller s face. this was the one we were worried about. you weren t there. but you re going to be. you re going to be. look, he wants to remain a senator, doesn t he? okay. and i think t
let the voting take us where it will. that is what is before us. , colleagues. will we begin to debate on one of the most important issues confronting america today. it is my hope that the answer will be yes. mr. president, senator mccain will be recognized to speak up to 15 minutes only, and the time not count on hr-1628. is an objection to make my move to proceed to account number one, hr-1628. speak out motion to proceed. calendar number 20. hr-1628. act to provide for
district your no vote responsible for nancy pelosi being happy. at this point when it comes to other things are there enough sticks to keep people in line to get consensus on it. brett: that s great point. you are not going to get to the right of mark meadows in his district in north carolina. you are not. other piece is obamacare repeal and replace really gone? is this not happening anymore? seven years of promises. brett: to that point, jim jordan a member of the house freedom caucus puts out statement: the american healthcare act did not have the support it needed neither in congress nor among the american people. now house republicans owe it to our constituents to immediately get back to the drawing board and bring forward a bolder effort to replace the failing obamacare with a to reduce cost b by reducing reduce and by increasing choice and competition. is there a sense that s happening? maybe. step one, start over. great. step three, repeal and replace.