Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday was singing the praises of the three Republicans , calling particular attention to , who cast the deciding vote killing the bill.
“I have not seen a senator who speaks truth to power as strongly, as well and as frequently as John McCain,” Schumer, a Democrat, said of the Arizona Republican. “The very same courage he showed as a naval aviator during Vietnam he showed last night and has shown time and time again.”
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Schumer, speaking to reporters, also called McCain — who is battling brain cancer and returned to Washington for the health care debate — one of the few great men he’s known in the U.S. Senate.
Schumer also praised Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who along with McCain voted down the GOP bill. They both have been critical “no” votes in halting the Senate GOP’s legislative efforts on health care.
“They were amazing and women are in so many instances stronger than men,” he said. “They brag less about it, but they are.”
Senate Republicans — also known as Obamacare — and the overnight vote was a last-ditch effort to keep momentum on their seven-year pledge to reverse President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.
Left unaltered, would have had a dramatic effect on Colorado, including the loss of insurance coverage for an 269,000 state residents, . Doing away with the mandate to buy coverage also had worried insurers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield that it would shatter the individual market.
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