MARK MEADOWS: Never fear! A new Obamacare repeal bill is here….or about to be!

House Republican Mark Meadows is telling reporters that a new effort is underway to write an Obamacare repeal bill that will pass both the House and Senate and he’s very optimistic:

WASHINGTON EXAMINER – Rep. Mark Meadows, a key negotiator in the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, said a new effort is underway to write a bill that can pass the Senate that would include proposals offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Ted Cruz and Rob Portman.

“We continue to work on two different plans with our Senate colleagues,” Meadows, R-N.C., told the Washington Examiner. “We will continue to do that over the next couple of weeks on a plan that can get to 51” votes in the Senate.

Meadows said he has talked to senators, including Graham, in the hours after this morning’s failure to pass a “skinny” repeal bill, and the mood is “all hands on deck” to come up with a new deal.

“I believe we deliver, still, on healthcare,” Meadows said. To suggest that everything is over is not understanding the dynamics going on right now in the Senate. It’s not over.”

Amendments sponsored by the four senators have yet to receive an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, which made them impossible to pass under special Senate rules that circumvent a Democratic filibuster.

Now there is time to get the information from CBO, Meadows said.

I’m glad he believes it can be done, but I’m not sure how at this point. For something that seemed so simple before January, it sure has gotten awfully complicated as of late and I don’t know if I actually believe a repeal/replace bill can pass both the House and Senate.


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