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2016 Postmortem

kentuck

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2. We had a 60 vote majority in the Senate only for a short while.

Reply to MichMary (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 16, 2016, 02:16 PM

Dec 2016

There were two or three Republicans, including Chuck Grassley, that had indicated they might support the ACA, but they eventually withdrew support as the Tea Party grew in momentum.

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Wrong MichMary Dec 2016 #1

We had a 60 vote majority in the Senate only for a short while. kentuck Dec 2016 #2