The record and voted on the motion to proceed. This would be the new healthcare bill. Trumpcare, if you will. Theres two no votes. Senator murkowski and senator Susan Collins of maine. Those are the two republican votes in the negative. There are two more republicans yet to vote. Senator ron johnson, the senior setter from wisconsin and senator mccain from arizona. John mccain is expected to be a yes vote. Senator ron johnson were not sure. Ive been told by our capitol hill producer, chad pergram, who is on the floor now, that senator johnson has been on the sidelines with senator mcconnell that leads the senate. Theyre having a discussion. Lets go to chad pergram who is on the floor now. What are we to make of this . Right now well have a 5050 tie with Vice President pence to cast the deciding ballot. John mccain came in just a couple moments to a standing ovation after his cancer surgery. He voted aye and ron johnson and the whip, john cornyn voted aye. Democrats that have held their
Nominations today. Congratulations on your emmy nomination, lawrence. One little one. Two, and two at 8 wi 00. Great night it embarrasses me to talk about that stuff. You are much bet are. John mccain is now this, i dont know, this mysterious figure. He gave a speech this afternoon that indicated he couldnt vote for anything that Mitch Mcconnell would bring to the floor. But tonight he did vote with mcconnell but you could argue that it was only a procedural vote, that it wasnt technically on the substance. But what he meant personally about how he is going to conduct himself in the Health Care Votes is not as clear as it sounded this afternoon. No. I think thats the right way it put it. I think that speech sort of stood alone. Im not sure that it was even a predictor of his own behavior, let alone of any other republican senators behavior. The vote they took a few moments ago, the vote they took tonight, 60vote threshold on that. They knew they wouldnt get anywhere near 60 votes. That
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