{"id":78790,"date":"2017-07-25T17:59:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T21:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78790"},"modified":"2017-07-25T18:03:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:03:55","slug":"the-senate-doesnt-even-know-which-healthcare-bill-is-being-debated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78790","title":{"rendered":"The Senate Doesn&#8217;t Even Know Which Healthcare Bill Is Being Debated"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sen. Paul: We &#8216;Have No Earthly Idea&#8217; Which Bill Will Be Debated<\/h1>\n<h5><!--more--><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5519561213001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><br \/>\nFox News&#8217; &#8220;Your World&#8221;<\/h5>\n<p>By Solange Reyner | NEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Senators have &#8220;no earthly idea&#8221; what GOP healthcare bill they will be voting for Tuesday, Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senator, what is up for a vote [Tuesday]? Could you update me?&#8221; Fox host Neil Cavuto asked Paul on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/show\/your-world-neil-cavuto\"><strong>&#8220;Your World with Neil Cavuto.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought you were going to tell me,&#8221; Paul replied. &#8220;I thought I was coming on air for you to tell me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/mitch-mcconnell-healthcare-vote\/2017\/07\/24\/id\/803518\/\"><strong>the senate will vote on whether to open debate on a healthcare bill,\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>but many Republicans returning to Washington are still uncertain on what their leadership is asking them to vote on.<\/p>\n<p>Paul said senators, &#8220;have no earthly idea what we will be voting on [Tuesday] other than that it&#8217;ll be moving to the House bill, but everybody knows it&#8217;s\u00a0not really going to be the House bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last week they said, well, we&#8217;re going to move to a clean repeal, the same vote we voted on in 2015, and I said, &#8216;hooray, that&#8217;s what we should be doing;\u00a0that&#8217;s what we promised,'&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;But now I&#8217;m told it may be the new Senate leadership bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, nobody&#8217;s told us,&#8221; he added. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of unknowns, and I don&#8217;t think we should move to the bill with so many unknowns, unless we&#8217;re going to be told what exactly we&#8217;re going to move to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/rand-paul-senators-no-idea-what-healthcare\/2017\/07\/24\/id\/803522\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/rand-paul-senators-no-idea-what-healthcare\/2017\/07\/24\/id\/803522\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Paul: We &#8216;Have No Earthly Idea&#8217; Which Bill Will Be Debated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}