sheet and that invincibility is going to continue to entrench itself next to trump. i think if democrats go after him, the loser-ness has to expand into a national conversation. which is, look, he said he was going to build a wall. he didn t. he said he d balance the budget immediately. he didn t do it. if you don t know obamacare, you still have it. if you voted for i mean, you can go through the list. biden used to say it all the time. this is like having an abusive partner. these republicans and trump. trump is their abusive partner. the question is, when are sometimes there s that moment when you re like, no more. i can t take it anymore. i m leaving. you would think january 6th would have been that moment. but it s not. so the question is, what is it going to be? because they keep going back and feeding the beast for themselves. they can t stop taking the abuse. house republicans gathered for their first conference meeting since leaked audio tapes revealed minority leader ke
time, a sixth of the economy, tens of millions, health and even life affected without knowing exactly what we ll be debating on. perhaps nothing could sum up the process that s gotten us here quite as well as this. now, the best the majority leader s been able to cook up is a vague plan to do whatever it takes to pass something, anything, to get the bill to a house and senate conference on health care. my colleagues, plain and simple, it s a ruse. the likeliest result of a conference between the house and senate is full repeal of the affordable care act or something very close to it. it will certainly mean drastic cuts in medicaid, huge tax cuts
process, the motion to proceed. it s the vote that determines whether this debate can proceed at all. whether we ll even take it up. after four straight elections in which this was a huge commitment to the american people, it s the vote that determines whether senators of both parties can offer their amendments and ideas on health care. well, i told the people of my state over this period that i d vote to move beyond obamacare. and that s what i m going to do today by voting yes. and i would ask all my colleagues to join me in doing
turn back now before it s too late and millions and millions and millions of americans are hurt so badly in ways from which they will never, ever recover. i yield the floor. mr. president. majority leader. seven years ago seven years ago, democrats imposed obamacare on our country. they said costs would go down. costs skyrocketed. they said choice would go up. choice plummeted. now obamacare s years-long lurch toward total collapse is nearing a seemingly inevitable conclusion. and it will hurt even more americans on the way down. this, my friends, is the
starting debate is really telling america that you re fine with obamacare. but being fine with obamacare isn t an option for another reason. because it s gone. it s failed. not going to be around. there was more to that. jim, i remember, when he was specifically talking to senator heller and saying, hey, if you re not, you know, for this, wink, wink, and he had this uncomfortable smile, like, where s the butt approximateb b button. that smile was melting like an ice cream cone on a 150-degree day. it s like right now, think of the entire health care process, repealing and replacing obamacare as a giant jenga tower with all those wooden blocks. you don t want to all you re doing is saying, let s keep going. let s keep voting on this. let s continue with the legislation. you don t want to be the one guy who says, no, i don t want to do it and the entire tower comes