Bill Cassidy on why Obamacare overhaul failed: 'Time is the enemy'
by Robert King | Sep 26, 2017, 4:08 PM | Updated Sep 26, 2017, 4:17 PM
Sen. Bill Cassidy lamented the lack of time to sell his Obamacare overhaul bill, which died Tuesday because of a lack of Republican support.
The Louisiana Republican and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced the bill with two other senators less than two weeks ago. The GOP wanted to vote on it by the end of this week before the authority to pass it with only 51 votes expires, but that effort collapsed Tuesday after too many GOP senators defected.
Cassidy said he doesn't think there was anything he could do over to win the support of the three GOP senators who defected, but wished he had more time to sell the bill.
"Time is the enemy," he said. "Clearly we needed to have hearings that some people did not like the process so we needed to have hearings and we didn't have time for those hearings."
The Senate Finance Committee held the only hearing on the bill on Monday.
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