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‘Kill the Bill! Kill the Bill! Kill the Bill!’
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McCain Voted No! McCain Voted No!
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Elizabeth Warren: ‘Let’s Have Some Fun! Does Anyone Want to Take a Selfie?’
About 150 people protesting Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare stood outside the Senate into the wee hours of Friday morning, chanting, “Kill the bill!” According to Vox congressional reporter Jeff Stein, they were among the first to learn that Senator John McCain would be casting the decisive “no” vote on Mitch McConnell’s “skinny repeal” of ObamaCare bill. That moment came at about 1:13 AM, when New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin posted this tweet, about 20 minutes before the bill died:
Watch this amazing moment as they learned all their efforts counted:
“Kill the bill!” chants became even louder. Stein, and others, reported the chants could be heard inside the Capitol:
Minutes after learning McCain was expected to vote no, here’s the moment the protestors learned he actually did. “McCain voted no! McCain voted no!” the protestors chanted, according to Stein:
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren came out to celebrate with the protestors:
“Because you stood up,” Warren said, congratulating protestors for all their efforts. “Because you tweeted, because you sent emails, because you posted, because you talked to people in the grocery store,” ObamaCare “stayed alive!”
And then she took selfies with them to celebrate:Â
Bernie Sanders also addressed the crowd:
As did Chuck Schumer:
Stein posted the list of organizations and speakers working to ensure ObamaCare repeal died, that organized the protest. It is huge, and we owe them all, and many more, including every person who took time to contact their Senators, our deepest gratitude:
NCRM thanks Jeff Stein for his excellent reporting and for posting these videos.Â
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