Trumpcare: There Are No Women Working on the Senate Version of the Republican Healthcare Bill — Quartz
The day after the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was passed in the US House of Representatives, a group of Republican senators are at work on a version they hope will pass in the Senate. The revisions are expected to be so substantial that the senators crafting the legislation are reportedly not even bothering starting with the text approved in the House, and instead will begin by drafting a health care bill from scratch.
The list of 13 senators working on the bill was first reported by Bloomberg and confirmed to Quartz by a Senate aide:
- Tom Cotton of Arkansas
- Cory Gardner of Colorado
- Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
- Rob Portman of Ohio
- Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania
- John Thune of South Dakota
- John Cornyn of Texas
- Ted Cruz of Texas
- Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
- Orrin Hatch of Utah
- Mike Lee of Utah
- Mike Enzi of Wyoming
- John Barrasso of Wyoming
That’s right: Three Johns, two Mikes, no women.