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Democrats Light Anti-Trumpcare Fire: 'The Power Of The People Is Greater Than The People In Power'
It鈥檚 time again for Senate Democrats to burn the midnight oil. Senate Democrats launched yet another night of floor speeches on Monday night castigating the GOP鈥檚 plan to repeal and replace Obamacare 鈥 a talk-a-thon led by Sens. Patty Murray of Washington and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii that ran several hours after the Senate鈥檚 5:30 p.m. votes. (Kim, 6/26)
On Monday night, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) gathered colleagues on the steps outside the Senate, where they talked for hours into a Facebook feed as activists filed in and out to watch the debate. The tone alternated between grim stories of people who would lose access to Medicaid, and in-jokes between the senators. 鈥淲e've brought in Papa Smurf!鈥 said Booker when Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) arrived to join the Facebook Live talk. (David Weigel, 6/26)
Senate Democrats are stepping up their attacks on the GOP effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare ahead of a vote on the plan that could come later this week. 聽Democrats launched a talkathon on Monday night from the Senate chamber, speaking for more than three hours and urging supporters to help kill the Senate legislation, which could face its first hurdle as soon as Tuesday. (Carney, 6/26)
Democrats are planning an hours-long protest from the Senate floor on Monday night as they gear up ahead of a vote on the GOP plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare. 聽Ben Wikler, the Washington director for the progressive outside group MoveOn.org, urged supporters to come to the Capitol on Monday night to watch the floor speeches from inside the Senate chamber. (Carney, 6/26)
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner was on the hot seat even before a new report estimated 22 million Americans would lose their health insurance by 2026 under a Republican bill the U.S. Senate could vote on this week. Now the stakes are even higher for the Colorado Republican, who has not said whether he would back a GOP health care proposal he helped shape 鈥 though Gardner spoke more positively than not about the measure in a brief interview Monday on Capitol Hill. (Matthews, 6/26)
