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What compromise? The ACA passed the House [1] and Senate [2] without a single Republican vote. [1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/0
by RightMillennial 8y ago
What compromise? The ACA passed the House [1] and Senate [2] without a single Republican vote.
[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/21/AR2010032100943.html?noredirect=on http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...
> The House voted 219 to 212 to approve the measure, with every Republican voting no.
[2]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/24/AR2009122400662.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...
> Vice President Biden presided over the 60 to 39 party-line vote, ...
- sv123 8y agoIt was watered down to make it a "budget bill" under the Senate rules so it could withstand filibuster. (In doing this, the ACA had to be stripped of almost all its cost-containment features.)
- komali2 8y agoIt's incredible to witness, real-time, people such as who you're replying to trying to change the facts of history mere years after the thing occurred. This is in line with my original point - since when did facts become so malleable?